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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banker Thomas William Lament, took the oath of allegiance to King George VI, began training as an artillery cadet. In a Ukrainian city, Ruth Marie Rubens, 31, Philadelphia woman who went to Russia in 1937 on a forged passport, became U.S.S.R. Citizeness Ruth Friederichnova Boerger. In Manhattan, Elisabeth Rethberg, Metropolitan Opera soprano, received her final papers for U. S. citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Many a mewling white tenor has strutted the proscenium at Manhattan's Metropolitan while more gifted Negro singers, by long-standing custom, were excluded. But in the field of concert singing Negroes like Roland Hayes and Paul Robeson have held their own with the best. Today's most famous Negro singer is soft-spoken Contralto Marian Anderson, whose big, warm-blooded voice is conceded to be one of the world's finest. Last summer at the tony Berkshire Festival near Stockbridge, Mass., another remarkable Negro voice! this time a soprano, threatened to claim a share of Contralto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Diva | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

While the audience in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House waited & waited for the curtain to rise, they whiled away the time by reading in their programs an apologia-by Surrealist Salvador Dali himself-for the surrealist ballet they were about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Krafft-Ebing Follies | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...stage, before a punctured mountain on a windswept plain, an ossified swan spread 15-ft. wings. In and out of its ruptured, bony breast the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's ballerinas climbed like the maggoty stuffing of a decayed Thanksgiving turkey. In the orchestra pit the staid Metropolitan Opera orchestra surged and noodled conventionally through Wagner's foaming music. But the cavorting it accompanied would have turned a Wagnerian's hair white in a single act. No Tannhäuser was its central protagonist, but mad King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Krafft-Ebing Follies | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Owned 56.5% by Reading Co., which is in turn controlled by Baltimore & Ohio, Jersey Central is B. & O.'s cherished connecting link with New York City's metropolitan area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: The Power to Tax . . . | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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