Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart to fight Japan, the Generalissimo had left that hopeless & thankless task to the "Young Marshal" who miserably failed to hold Jehol (TIME, March 13 et ante). Last week the New Deal was dealt ceremoniously on the General Staff Train which halted 90 miles short of Peiping at Paotingfu Station. Crestfallen "Young Marshal" Chang resigned his rulership of North China. His resignation was face-savingly "refused" by the Generalissimo until two days later. Meanwhile Young Chang was permitted to proclaim that his sole purpose was to die for China, battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese...
...special train carrying eleven carloads of garrulous, good-humored people chuffed out of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one morning this week. The Metropolitan Opera Company, its future still undecided,* was on the way to Baltimore. There pretty Lily Pons would exhibit her clear, high trills in Rigpletto. Graceful Lucrezia Bori would sing in Pagliacci. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett would stain himself brown and enact Emperor Jones. The Company's famed Wagnerians would sing in Tristan und Isolde...
...again in Milwaukee, then packed for Ann Arbor. This year the 72-year-old pianist is giving concerts as fast as he can travel. Unlike other years, he will not stop to rest at his ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His private car is hitched to one fast train after another. When it stands sidetracked, trainmen still gather around it to hear the old man tirelessly practice his trills and runs, sound out his smashing chords...
Quartet. The London String Quartet gave a concert in Manhattan last week and set out for the Pacific Coast where for two months it will be sponsored by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. most generous of chamber music patrons. The Londoners play bridge on the train when they can find a fourth; long John Pennington (first violinist) refuses to play. Because constant rehearsing and traveling force them to see so much of one another they try to stay at different hotels...
Pons. Next week Lily Pons begins a concert tour with first stops at Buffalo, Harrisburg, Washington. Ita, the seven-month-old jaguar which she brought last autumn from South America, will travel with her. Ita rests most comfortably on cold, smooth steel. On the train he will sleep in the washbasin. In hotels he prefers the inside of a grand piano...