Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...health of lyric drama everywhere that I have undertaken to produce the Musical Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre," explained Morris Gest in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Without some such stimulus as Dantchenko and his synthetic theatre are providing, the lyric drama would, I believe, drop to even lower levels than it has now reached and I doubt if ever before the public interest in opera has been much lower...
...vigorous, exuberant prima donna swept across the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The big curtain was down tight; another makeshift drop shut off the people seated on the stage, from the strip of stage whereon the singer was to stand. At the appointed hour, the great curtain lifted, slowly, solemnly, disclosed Jeritza, there, ready, her weight on one foot in true Bernhardtian manner. Her husband, big Baron von Popper, had carried her on, propped her against the piano, left her there to give pleasure to a great audience that applauded her singing, her pluck...
...discussing the sudden drop in the stock market Professor Cunningham said that he thought it due more to a natural reaction to the former high inflation than to the effect of the collapse of the Nickel Plate merger, that the bubble of speculation had already reached undue proportions and needed only the prick of some such shock as this to make it burst...
...stepped last week into the White House, which used to be his home as a young man. He came to attend the hanging of a portrait of his mother, the first of her to be hung there?the portrait of a dark lady in a crinoline hoopskirt and drop-shoulder gown with a wreath in her hair. The scene of the hanging was in the oval room on the ground floor, under the famous Blue Room used for formal receptions. The gentleman was Robert Todd Lincoln. At his request the portrait of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had been painted...
Composer Carpenter is that happy combination, a businessman of artistic ability. True, he inherited the business (mill, railway and shipping supplies), but he did not drop it. He studied music at Harvard and entered his father's office. He met Elgar, pride of England, he studied under Bernhard Zielin, he composed the jazz panto-ballet Krazy Kat for the Chicago Orchestra and continued functioning as his company's vice president. Legerity, wit and polish are the chief characteristics of his music...