Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of her resource and range by thrice repeating, with unimportant changes of scene and material, her most famed characterization: the ludicrous femme fatale. First a Parisian music hall favorite ("l'amour, the merrier"), then a temperamental ballerina with painful recollections of her flight from Russia ("You can't teach an old dog new treks"), she tops the lot as a light lady of Vienna with this lyrical self-analysis...
Farmers?children, farmers?children. And then I saw it clearly: Train the children to be farmers! Not in England. Teach them farming in the land where they will farm...
Production difficulties for the Gershwin opera have been to teach the Harlem Negroes a Southern accent, to drill by ear those who were unable to read a note, to help some members of the cast decide on names which will look imposing in the program. Great advantage has been the fact that none of the singers was handicapped at the start by having real grand opera ways. The principals, Porgy and Bess, have never sung on the stage before. Bess is one Anne Browne, a product of the Juilliard School of Music. Porgy is Todd Duncan, a Gershwin discovery from...
...longer must a scientist or a philosopher waste his teaching ability on sugar-coated platitudes designed to interest many bored listeners. He may now teach without fear the elements of his field. No longer must an intelligent student dull his enthusiasm in ill-adapted courses. Not only will he have his presumably fascinating field of concentration but also he may satisfy secondary interests instead of monotonous requirements...
...BOOKSHELF for September 20, it should be added that the publisher of Bliss Perry's AND GLADLY TEACH is Houghton Mifflin, Boston...