Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene is laid in Oklahoma Territory at the turn of the century. The plot: Curly (Franchot Tone of Hotel Universe and Pagan Lady), a happy broncobuster, woos and wins Laurey (June Walker), who mortally fears & hates a psychopathic farm hand (Richard Hale) in her employ. During the wedding party Mr. Hale ignites a hayrick, falls on his own knife in a scuffle with Mr. Tone. Mr. Tone is held for questioning but escapes to his new wife. There the play ends, with the cowboys singing "Green Grow the Lilacs" offstage...
Though most are not autobiographical in tone, these stories are told by a first-person narrator. Some of them...
...this Scot MacDonald said in a very long, very cautious speech of optimistic tone. Keynote: "There will be reserved to the Governor General [representing the Crown in the new Indian Federation] only that minimum of special powers which is required to secure in exceptional circumstances the preservation of tranquillity and guarantee the maintenance of rights provided by statute for public services and the minorities...
...graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing off-key), a high E flat clearly sung, not just peeped?these won her cheers and a dozen or more...
...concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra tonight in Sanders Theatre will consist of Symphony No. 1 in E fat by Hadyn; "Masquerade" by McKinley; "Salome," Tone poem after Oscar Wilde's Tragedy, Opus 55 by Hadley; and Suite for Orchestra, "Streets of Pekin," by Hadley...