Word: willem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forgotten which, as I find them lying around my mother's apartment here, a week or more old, and read the wisecracks without looking at the dates. you copied an article in the division called People, from the Herald Tribune to the effect that Hendrik van Loon, Hendrik Willem van Loon to be exact, had arrived in America and groaned at the prospect of his son's becoming an interpretative dancer (TIME, July 20). And that son you called Hendrik Willem van Loon Jr. That's all very well except for two mistakes, first of all Hendrik...
...York City's Lewisohn Stadium last week went hollow-eyed Willem Van Hoogstraten, having conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra there for three weeks. After a program of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach and Brahms (apparently his favorite composer), he was given tokens of esteem in recognition of his ten-year association with the Stadium concerts, set out for Philadelphia to direct the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts in Robin Hood Dell Park. Next he will go to Europe, return in the autumn to conduct his seventh season in Portland...
...Chopin, composer and friend to pretty women and romantic dowagers? Said she: "I didn't let anyone know. It was more fun than playing bridge or going to parties." For three hours a day she worked at piano and composition, presently had her score ready for Conductor Willem van Hoogsträten. She also composed a nocturne and an Irish reel, orchestrated a Beethoven Sonata. Smart, fiftyish, she sat in the floodlighted Stadium the night of its performance, wondered how the Polonaise would sound...
Writer Hendrik Willem Van Loon...
arrived in Manhattan and disclosed that Hendrik Willem Van Loon Jr., a resident of Paris, is going to become an interpretative dancer. Said Father Van Loon: "It was hard to learn of this." But he said he told his son: "Otto Kahn let his son [Roger Wolff] do as he wished [lead bands, fly airplanes] and so I'll let you do as you wish, and become an interpretative dancer...