Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Academy of Music, the young, hard-working Philadelphia Opera Company hit the stride of its third season with a performance in English of the best-known Czech opera: Bedŕich Smetana's The Bartered Bride. Managed by tall, lean C. David Hocker, musically directed by short, swart Sylvan Levin, the Philadelphia troupe has 22 singers, average age about 27, all but one homegrown. The simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage...
Looking on and loving it were: plump, pleasant Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York; bland, swart Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. They were glad to see priests adept at quick comebacks. Said Delegate Cicognani: "The apostles preached in this way. . . . It was in the streets that Our Lord met those who were in bad need...
...Hurok has another ballet to his string. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, directed by swart, 44-year-old Leonide Massine, onetime maitre de ballet for Colonel de Basil, had opened in Manhattan, had now begun a 22-week tour of the U. S. The Massine ballet lacked pretty young stars and its ensemble would not make the Rockettes jealous, but it had two of the world's best ballerinas: dark, svelte British Alicia Markova, who excels in classic ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake, and dark, vivacious Alexandra Danilova, who was in the old Diaghilev company, Danilova -once...
...spokesmen spoke regretfully of U. S. hostility to Japanese aims, of continued pressure culminating in last week's embargo of scrap iron. Japan is still not abandoning hope of improving relations with the U. S., said the Foreign Office's Spokesman No. 1, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, swart, squat Ya-kichiro Suma...
...somewhere near by, either in Texas or in northern Mexico. His "junta" in San Antonio still seemed to be without organization. So feeble were the Almazan efforts to toss the Government out that some haters of President Cardenas in Mexico City hinted they would transfer their allegiance to swart little General Joaquin Amaro, a tough, full-blooded Tarascan Indian who would love to seize power and run Mexico as a dictatorship...