Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted an orchestra of their own. No single city was affluent enough to support a full-fledged one alone but in the university town of Chapel Hill a group of men headed by Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt had the idea of organizing a State Symphony,† one which would visit and be backed by several communities. They approached Composer Lamar Stringfield, a native Carolinian flautist teaching in the University music department. Among his teachers were Georges Barrere and Henry Hadley (conducting). The North Carolina sponsors asked Mr. Stringfield to assemble an orchestra, conduct an experimental concert at Chapel Hill...
Miss Thompson did not go back. She had lived 40 years in a simmering green hell where, even the encyclopedias said, a European could not survive a year's visit. She had built tight houses for her black charges. She had tended the sick, cracked an occasional black male pate for wife-beating, tried to teach the Tulasus tidiness and something about her God. In return, the Tulasus called barren Miss Thompson "Mother...
...painting was done by the great American naturalist in 1827 while he was on a visit to Scotland. It was painted for a Scottish nobleman whose family sold it some years ago to Mr. Thayer. The canvas is about six by nine feet, and has the qualities of an eighteenth century landscape...
...very dull work it is, that seems to go on merely because the company had about five thousand feet of film to use up before declaring bankruptcy. It is all about a good girl who works in a company and who, despite the warnings of her friends, goes to visit her employer, on business of course, in his pent house. It is not a usual pent house at all, for it opens out on an African Zoo which the employer explains away by his passion for the Orient, an explanation which did not allay the suspicion that...
Rochester paid so willingly to hear pretty French Lily Pons sing in Lucia di Lammermoor fortnight ago that for the first time in eight years the Metropolitan Opera's visit showed a profit. Last week musical Rochester went three times to the big theatre named for the late George Eastman who gave it, and once to small, chaste Kilbourn Hall which Mr. Eastman built in memory of his mother. But no reckoning had to be done in either boxoffice. These concerts were the second annual Festival of American Music, given free by the Eastman School of Music. Under...