Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hartford, Conn., Rosa Ponselle gave a joint concert with her sister Carmela. Four thousand people applauded. Between the acts they gossiped. Only a few years ago these girls were unknown . . . common school education . . . vaudeville songsters. But Rosa came to Manhattan, took singing lessons from William Thorner. He, recognizing talent, visited Gatti-Casazza, announced a "find." "Let me hear her," answered the Director. He did, was impressed, advised her to work up one or two roles. She made her debut with Caruso, after six months of vocal instruction. Carmela is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Hartford concert...
...Boston during the hectic Mid year period when students have either turned scholastic recluses or have field homeward for a brief vacation. When they return sent are unavailable at any price and in a few days the Opera House again becomes the morgue for third rate ballets and home talent musical comedies...
Heading the cast of veteran as well as new talent are R. H. Booth '27 , the hero in the role of Normal Rockwell, the wealthy easterner, and Howard Whitmore '29 as the pulchritudinous Mary Ogden, heroine of the great open spaces. Both Booth and Whitmore starred in a pitching role, respectively, on last year's University and Freshman baseball team, and their performances thus far in "Shooting the Works" proves the range of their versatility...
...surprise to natives who grumble about "foreign invaders." It was made in 1918, when Russia had just entered the turmoil of social reconstruction and film studios, in consequence, were crippled. Several years after its creation, the Director, M. Nelidov, fled to the U. S., sought occupation for his talent, found only a $20-a-week job in a bank. Cinema magnates, when they granted interviews, asked for samples of his work. He could offer nothing, because the Socialist Party in the U. S., owners of the right to Polykushka, refused, for political precautions, to allow the picture to be revealed...
...system now stands," he says, "tutoring in English presents itself to the tutor as a cul de sac, since it appears to lead nowhere, either at Harvard or else-where." Such a situation is one that menaces the system. For if both remuneration and prospects are slight, the talent attracted will be slight, the services of graduate students will be required, and the principal advantages and merits of the system will be vitiated...