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Word: violas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Omaha, Neb., suing for divorce, Mrs. Viola Beck testified that her husband knocked her out by hitting her on the head with a live chicken. When he found that the impact had killed the chicken, he revived Mrs. Beck and ordered her to cook it. She refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...quartet composed of Edward B. Greene '36, pianoforte; Malcolm H. Holmes '23, violin; Margaret Clark, viola; and Harold Sproul, cello, will play a program made up of selections from Mozart and Brahms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Musical Society Quartet to Play in Lowell on Sunday | 3/15/1935 | See Source »

...upper middle-class family of women. To her ancient and churlish mother (Mildred Natwick) she shows unremitting forbearance. To her fretful and uncertain sisters and daughter she imparts a philosophy distilled from long and loving communion with her late husband. One by one problems are solved. The daughter (Viola Keats) leaves the man who can further her ambitions for the man she loves. One sister (Estelle Wynwood) foregoes an unseemly dalliance, returns to the old romance that time has almost staled. The other sister (Viola Roache) finds it easier to accept the un eventful round of housewifely existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

Last year, in a series of seven concerts, the Chardon String Quartet presented the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartet. This year their program will be varied-ranging from Haydn to Hindemith. The members of the quartet are: Norbert Lauga, first violin; Clarence Knudson, second violin; Jean Cauhape, viola; Yves Chardon, 'cello, They are all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chardon Quartet Will Open Chamber Music Series Oct. 25 | 9/29/1934 | See Source »

Like last week's other revivals (see cols. 2 & 3), Miss Adams' had its peculiarities. She herself performed not as Viola but in the minor part of Maria. The play was equipped with a prolog and epilog suggested by Miss Adams and written by old-time Dramacritic Walter Prichard Eaton, which attempted to give Twelfth Night the flavor of a play within a play. In the prolog, while the players bargained with an innkeeper and set up their props, supernumeraries, representing members of a 17th Century audience at a country theatre "try-out," gathered in the stage boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Shakespeare in Ogunquit | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

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