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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibited such energy and endurance that she left her audience feeling limp. A Haydn symphony was over her depth but she whisked through it boldly, with flashing technique. Dances suited her better, particularly those of her native Hungary. Then she would get wild-eyed, sway from side to side, swing occasionally on her 15 players who appeared to be so thoroughly trained that they scarcely needed the whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bandmistress | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...duties at the Stadium completed with today's game, Fesler will be able to devote his full time to the hoopsters, and hopes to swing into intensive scrimmages before the week is over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL PRACTICE GETS UNDER WAY MONDAY | 11/23/1935 | See Source »

...Majesty's Flying Corps during the War cost him a kidney and his remaining kidney has now abruptly convinced him that it is Death to go on as Premier. Mr. Hepburn was said to be in acute pain last week, unable to sleep nights. His whirlwind swing around the entire Dominion during the General Election (TIME, Oct. 21) which made him for the first time a continent-wide figure, also overstrained his kidney. And Mitch believed last week that he faces angina pectoris. After the first shock of amazement, Ontario did not quite believe that its Premier will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ontario Amazed | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...beard. 3) Opera routine: At the premiere of the opera company a full symphony orchestra attempts to render Il Trovatore while the brothers run mad, trying to break up the performance so as to get the lead for Ricardo, climbing in the flies of the opera house and swinging from rope to rope so that wild pieces of scenery appear behind the singers. As a climax Groucho substitutes plebeian music on the racks, causing the orchestra at a turn of the score-page to swing from Trovatore into Take Me Out to the Ball Game while Groucho enters down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 18, 1935 | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Three dance tunes in the show are definite hits. "Life Begins at Sweet Sixteen," "Anything Can Happen," and "I'm the Fellow Who Loves You," with music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Jack Yellen, are catcy, have a first-rate swing to them. "Cigarette" and "May I Have My Gloves," are good plugs of the "Cocktails for Two" variety. "Pied Piper of Harlem" is hot but not very original. "Boondoggling" is the cleverest thing in the show, has a nice tune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/15/1935 | See Source »

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