Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Married. Alec Andrews Templeton, 30, blind, British-born pianist and deft musical parodist (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera}; and onetime Singer Juliette Vaiani, 39; in Los Angeles...
...late-4:19 p.m.-before Prime Minister Churchill retired at the end of the question period. He had put the House of Commons in a gay mood by his deft handling of tricky questions. As the speaker left the chair, the sergeant at arms, dressed in court black, advanced solemnly up the aisle, removed the mace from the table, and set it in the bracket underneath. This put the House "in committee of the Whole House," ready to consider any bill concerned with money...
...Piano and Orchestra . (Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Jesus Maria Sanroma; Victor: 4 sides). Once the No. 1 bad boy of the Paris salons, Igor Stravinsky, in the late 1920s, began to serve up melodies that sounded like those of the sentimental 19th-Century Romantics. The Capriccio, a deft example of vintage 1929, is performed as only Mr. Sanroma and the Bostonians...
...culture has flourished at its most earnest, its most uplifting, for nearly 70 summers. One day last week, Chautauquans cocked quizzical ears at the Miller Tower,* whose chimes are best known for Sunday morning hymn tunes. The chimes pealed. Oh, Johnny and Chinatown, My Chinatown. The pealer was impish, deft-fingered, blind Pianist Alec Templeton, who is equally good at Bach, boogie-woogie, musical satire, improvisation. Pianist Templeton, awakened that morning by the chimes, had asked leave to get back at them...
Telescoped from four into three acts by Producer Cheryl Crawford, directed fairly briskly by Romney Brent, Maplewood's Second Mrs. Tanqueray afforded Tallulah Bankhead plenty of opportunities to show her deft dramatic stuff. As she whirled through her paces, the inevitable squeaks of the revival's old joints were hardly audible...