Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theremin in that its tone is controlled by a fingerboard (rather than by waves of the hand), its volume by a pedal. Carl Zeise, regular Philadelphia 'cellist who operates it, is one of several able Theremin soloists-among them Alexandra Stepanoff, who appeared recently in Chicago, George Goldberg and Zenide Hanenfeldt, who teaches some 25 Theremin aspirants in Inventor Leon Theremin's Manhattan studio...
...safe pastime is it to expose transgressions of city officials and gangsters in the Chicago neighborhood. Samuel Goldberg, East Chicago grocer, had told the Federal grand jury "too much." Uneasily he confided to Federal officials that he had been threatened by members of the East Chicago police force. Then a Negro friend of his persuaded him to go for a stroll. He was "put on the spot," plugged full of gangster bullets. There armed citizens stood guard night and day to prevent a general witness massacre...
...smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated virtues should be laid to John Murray Anderson, its organizer and producer, and to Gil Boag, its $180,000 angel, hitherto famed variously...
Murray Anderson's Almanac promises to rival Earl Carroll's Sketchbook (TIME, July 15) with seekers of chorus girls, guffaws and 4-4 time. Its writers include A. E. Thomas, playwright, Rube Goldberg and Ring W. Lardner, funnymen. It will serve to frame fat, raucous Trixie Friganza and Jimmy Savo, small comic. A modernized version of A Temperance Town, oldtime comedy by Charles Hoyt, will include incidental tunes. George M. Cohan will smilingly assume the stage as author and actor in Gambling...
...Abraham Goldberg of the Bronx, N. Y., added that the blame was not only Yevseksia's since if the Soviet Government did not approve of the persecution nobody would dare persecute. A resolution of ''protest and condemnation" was sent to President Hoover and Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations committee...