Word: selection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travel from Italy to Manhattan to conduct just one concert, reflected Arturo Toscanini, one really should select the Perfect Program. Last week he announced that when he leads the Philharmonic Symphony for the benefit of unemployed musicians April 28, his idea of perfection will be Parsifal, the Prelude and the Good Friday music, followed by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its soaring Ode to Joy. Toscanini also cabled his choice of soloists: Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Margaret Matzenauer, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Ezio Pinza...
...finding that Lowell wears well, nor is there anything particularly starting in the discovery. When gamins form a club in the old house at the corner they borrow a sheet from the family linen closet and paint an ominous skull and cross bones on it, or they select a secret pass word, or they conceive a now hand shake. It is all such jolly fun and so confusing to the other club round the corner. At times organizations are even formed for the sole purpose of endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty soon the only thing that remains...
...Asked to select the six prettiest girls of the Junior Class at Syracuse University, Artist James Montgomery Flagg wrote: "Sure?I'll pick out the prettiest gals? if any?or if six. All sorts of colleges every year do this to me, salt water, fresh water and bilgewater colleges, and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad tho' narrow land! I know now why there are so many pretty gals in New York?all the ugly ones are in colleges...
...widely supposed to be his passive candidacy for the presidential nomination. To secure Smith-pledged convention delegates in Massachusetts where a candidate's written consent must be obtained, he gave his power of attorney to Chairman Frank J. Donahue of the Democratic State Committee. Chairman Donahue will now select a slate of Brown Derby delegates for the Massachusetts primaries in April...
When a celebrated actor chooses a vehicle, he is likely to pick something insignificant, to be sure that the merits of his performance outweigh the rest of the entertainment. When two celebrated actors select a vehicle, they are likely to have a hard time finding one which will suit this requirement for both of them. Arsene Lupin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) can therefore be considered a triumph of selection and adaptation. It gives both Barrymore brothers, Lionel and John, parts of almost equal importance and allows each to perform his specialty without stealing the play from the other. Lionel is Guerchard...