Word: viols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with opera itself. He is 42-year-old Milton John Cross, a huge, humble, bespectacled, music-charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul. Radio listeners hear a tremolo of anticipation when Milton Cross's bated, bass-viol voice tells them: "The house lights are being dimmed. In a moment the great gold curtain will...
...Gras Viol 'und Masslieb...
...couple, went to last week's Rochester Congress by bus, took charge of various receptions, joined the rehearsals under Rochester Dirigent Hubert Stiens. The orchestra contained 50 zithers gathered from all over the U. S., three violins, one 'cello, seven mandolins, eight guitars, one flute, one bass viol. A spat nearly spoiled a rehearsal when Soloist Maximillian Veith, a lithographic demonstrator with a Hitler mustache, became piqued at Dirigent Stiens, commanded the orchestra: "When I am in your city I play as I wish. Now you must follow me. If you do not like it, take your instruments...
Died. John Ringling, 70, last of the seven Ringling circus brothers (others' Al, Gus, Otto, Alf T., Charles E., Henry); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. For an early Ringling performance he spent $3.50 for handbills advertising "Ringling Brothers' Moral, Elevating, Instructive & Fascinating Concert & Variety Performance," strummed the bass viol at a one-night show in their Baraboo, Wis. backyard. Head of the American Circus Corp., which controlled every sizable U. S. circus unit, in 1933 he had been forced to sign over most of the Ringling assets to meet an interest payment on a loan...
...week were 31 which included: a lazy peon sound asleep on the back of a patient donkey, his head on a blanket of bright green broccoli; a toothsome slant-eyed dancing girl, pigtails and red skirts whirling; a bug-eyed Mussolini, giving the Fascist salute; a scrawny-necked bass viol player in the wreck of a brown frock coat; an Indian dancer of Oxaca in a tremendous headdress of flowers and shells. Priced at $25 to $250, they sold fast. Seven were gone a week after the show opened. The sedate Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two; the Brooklyn Museum...