Word: smoothest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intents and purposes, and purely from the uninitiated point of view, Arthur Beane, pulling at the number six position, seems to be the smoothest working of all the human-machines in the boat. We'd be willing to lay down a bet--provided it were not for too high stakes--that he would be Varsity material if he were...
...Methodist minister's son, made his name in musical comedy (Maytime, Apple Blossoms). He went to Brussels for operatic experience and he has sung briefly in opera in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco. But it was his concerts that made New York realize he had the warmest, smoothest baritone voice in the country. Concerts have earned him enough money to keep a home in Easton, Maryland, another in Palm Beach where he often goes sailfishing with his wife...
...Last week as soon as another season was assured, Cyrena Van Gordon, onetime Chicago Opera contralto, was engaged for the Metropolitan. So was Baritone John Charles Thomas, the Pennsylvania Methodist Minister's son who after an apprenticeship in musical comedy Maytime, Apple Blossoms) has developed one of the smoothest baritone voices...
...were announced. The players get $15 a concert or $300 for their winter's work. Conductor Sandor Har-mati. who used to be with the Omaha Symphony, chooses and trains the men. (He claims that many of the players lost their jobs because they had lost their hair. The smoothest pate in the orchestra belongs to Alfred Friese, oldtime tympanist of the New York Philharmonic, whose pupil, young black-mopped Saul Goodman, now stands behind the kettledrums in Toscanini's orchestra.) Each concert has a different guest-conductor. Some of this season's guests: Gershwin. Reiner, Rodzinski, Stokowski. Stock, Harty...
...flight, in a pompous, swaggering manner quite unlike the popular U. S. idea of him. The chorus exhorts him as he starts, exalts him in a hymnlike way at the finish. During the flight a baritone radios all ships to watch out for him. A bass solo, with the smoothest music in the cantata, urges him to sleep. The chorus takes turns representing the S. S. Empress of Scotland, the fog and ice which beset Lindbergh during the night, the optimism of Americans, the pessimism of the French due to their recent loss of Nungesser, the jubilation when the plane...