Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen for almost 20 years, played by far his greatest role as de Lawd in the cinema version of Green Pastures. Forty-two, 6 ft. 2 in. tall, 225 lb., he owes most of the vigor of his acting to the vigor of his physique and personality. A medical student as well as an actor, he confesses to finding his career greatly hampered because of his race, dramatizes his position by suddenly placing his dark-brown hand up against a white one. His two main interests: tuberculosis research in Louisville, Ky., a U. S. Negro theatre...
...Chicago last week had them tacked over their beds. Included: a jam session in a cheap hotel room; a street-corner scene of jobless musicians; the interior of the Orange Blossom in Kansas City, one of the midwestern barrel houses where swing flourishes rankly. In this lithograph, The Student (see cut, p. 39), Artist von Physter showed " a white dog named Gunk" at the saxophone learning how to go to town by sitting in with colored players...
Unlike many modernist composers, 42-year-old Hindemith has had wide experience as a practical musician, is a virtuoso on the viola. After running away from home at the age of eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
...first time in many years, 15 leading undergraduate organizations will back a mass peace demonstration to be held on April 27, it was revealed yesterday. For the first time also the Student Union will not be the sole sponsor of the affair...
Plans for the demonstration were made known after a meeting, at which officially or unofficially the various groups were represented. A call will be sent out to all student extra-curricular organizations, including Freshman, to join the movement and send delegates to the council of directors...