Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rochester paid so willingly to hear pretty French Lily Pons sing in Lucia di Lammermoor fortnight ago that for the first time in eight years the Metropolitan Opera's visit showed a profit. Last week musical Rochester went three times to the big theatre named for the late George Eastman who gave it, and once to small, chaste Kilbourn Hall which Mr. Eastman built in memory of his mother. But no reckoning had to be done in either boxoffice. These concerts were the second annual Festival of American Music, given free by the Eastman School of Music. Under...
...vocal sins, as they did the Vagabond's. One cracked voice is a minor point in the general effect, and the Vagabond is everlastingly grateful to Professor Davison and his choristers for their part in upholding a brave tradition. He will go again next Tuesday; perhaps he will even sing again...
...Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History, Biography, Poetry: respectively to Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, General John Joseph Pershing, Henry Fowles Pringle, George Dillon...
...first to take the salary cut in the autumn. But her contract has expired, has not yet been renewed for the shortened 1932-33 season. The Times rumor appeared to be founded on the fact that Swedish Soprano Goeta Ljungberg, tall & blonde like Jeritza, is ready to sing Tosca next year, a role Jeritza usually sings...
...discussing the selection of "Of Thee I Sing" as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in the field of the drama, K. B. Murdock '16, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said, "The selection of the play seems to me an excellent one and a proof that the life and reality of "Of Thee I Sing" is more acceptable to the public at the present time...