Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization. Old Bill with his familiar pipe and muffler, little Alf, his great worry, and the tyrant corporal, muddle through the war somehow. On the occasion of a camp entertainment, Old Bill...
...peasants gathered on holidays. Ninety-six cents, she had made in just one evening. That, and the seven and a half cents she earned giving the restaurant keeper's daughter lessons, she put toward a piano for herself, nol much of a piano with its hammers patched with string and sealing wax, but still a piano. . . . Sh might have gone back to Dresden where she first sang in opera, to Hamburg, where Herr Heink had died and left her alone with five small children, to scrub and cook, to sing for five dollars a performance. Yes, Hamburg...
...when she came to the Metropolitan Opera to sing for $75 a week. More children, Herr Schumann's, were added to Herr Heink's* string. At the Metropolitan she was at home, but there were the children. . . . She went into musical comedy. They lifted their hands in horror at the Metropolitan but they took her back when she was ready to come because no one else could sing Wagner as she could. She left the Metropolitan again, went touring the country in concert, into towns much smaller than Stevens Point, into army camps, schools, hospitals, East, North, South...
...University squad after two stiff evening assignments is crippled some-what by injuries to Coady, Daley, Miller, and French, but is otherwise in a fit and aggressive mood. Miller and French, two first-string backs are being saved for the Dartmouth clash and Coach Horween has decided not to risk either of them in today's encounter. The Crimson captain, however, has nearly recovered from his leg injury, and will see service if needed. Daley, the veteran guard who has been under observation for appendicitis may also get into the play for a time, when the two oldest colleges...
...climax of the program will be the Beethoven "Eroica Symphony." In his production last Saturday night, Mr. Koussevitzky multiplied the wood winds into fours and strengthened the brass against the weight of the string choir. This rendered it, in the opinion of many of those who heard it, the most vivid performance of "The Eroica" that Boston has heard in many years...