Word: player
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion the Budapesters had with them two guest soloists: athletic William Primrose, world's No. 1 viola player and chief violist of Arturo Toscanini's NBC Orchestra; a small, plump, snub-nosed young woman who booped mightily through the brass coils of a big French horn. When she had finished the horn part of Mozart's Quintet in E Flat Major, with dignity she dumped the saliva from her horn, rose and went home to practice for this week's concert. The young woman's name was Ellen Stone, and playing with such topnotchers...
Leverett, at the same time, rose to the occasion and tied Dudley 0 to 0 as Ernie Sargeant, Varsity player who was forced to retire yesterday on account of headaches, led the cheering and served as water...
...treachery of tone production the conspicuous sonority of the brass and the fact that the player is usually alone on his part, and one can see that a small slip of the lip becomes terrifically embarrassing. An occurrence at a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert recently has a very interesting bearing on this subject. Just before a long passage for muted strings a very important member of the first violin section lost his mute. He searched for it frantically, finally was forced to play the whole passage unmated; but the total effect was not too shocking...
...breath-taking surprise was the eight-piece jazz unit known as Matty Malneck's orchestra which captivated the audience with its novel rhythms featuring a Harpo Marxish accordion player called Milton Delugg. Eve Arden as a wealthy patroness of odd theatricals proved to be a front of witty dialogue, Grace-McDonald and Frances Mercer are attractive ingenues, Jack Whiting appears as an adequate song-and-dance man. The dancing of Don Loper and Maxine Barrat provides dynamic climaxes for several of the sequences. "All the Things You Are" is probably the standout among the ever-original and entrancing Kern tunes...
Although Macdonald is expected to play against the Army on Saturday, Coach Harlow has indicated no changes in the starting backfield assignments. Lack of any contact work and almost no conditioning in the past weeks will prevent Macdonald from being as 60 minute player for some time. He will probably see about 15 minutes of action at the tailback post Saturday...