Word: talents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranked among the conservatives. That is because in Catalonia, Communists believe in discipline, as opposed to the free-for-all philosophy of the pure Anarchists, largest and most troublesome group in the state. The main reason that government is possible at all in Catalonia is due to the extraordinary talent for compromise of Catalonia's president, excitable Luis Companys. President Companys has been in & out of jails much of his political career, has long fought for Catalan independence, speaks of Spain as "the Iberian Peninsula." His technique with his spluttering allies is to promise them everything with the greatest...
...14th National Music Week (May 2-9). Endorsed by all 48 governors, the Week was observed locally by 2,000 towns and cities, nationally by National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System. Schools, churches and clubs helped carry out this year's slogan: ''Foster Local Music Talent." Radio broadcasts included concerts by the New England Conservatory and the Boston Symphony, the entire Smetana Opera The Bartered Bride sung by the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, concerts by the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Musical Arts Chorus of Easton, Pa., the Lincoln Cathedral Choir of Lincoln, Neb., the Roth...
...Adams pitching talent was uncovered as Morris G. Manker '38 and Irving H. Soden each spent two innings on the mound. Soden dazzled the Puritans in the fifth by striking out two of them with his sizzling speed balls...
Director Michael Curtiz keeps his picture off the ground by his comic talent supplied by Guy Kibbee as the country doctor and the doc's fiancee of twenty years, Margaret Hamilton. Mona Barrie and the amiable Fuzzy Knight do creditably in somewhat conventional supplementing roles...
...your open-eye moments, concentrate on the child actors, almost all of whom are remarkable for unaffected acting and outstanding musical talent. Without makeup and without tears, they become alive strictly on their own ability. The story concerns two young boys, one eleven, one twelve, whose genius for violin playing makes them a joy to their Russian teacher. Both are to enter a nation-wide musical competition, but the elder boy arouses the ire of the professor through a prank and is banished from the studio. In a grim and gloomy mood at his misfortune, he composes an original cadenza...