Word: pleasingness
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Aptly and concisely to describe her singing, one would have to go to Keats for the phrase "singing in full-throated ease." Mme. Gauthier possesses that limpidness and clear contour of tone necessary for the singer of the eighteenth century Italians, but she succeeded best, as far as her first...
As a parting shot, it may be of interest to record the fact that Owen Davis, winner of the Pulitzer 'prize for 1923, has dramatized "The Nervous Wreck" and that under the direction of Sam Harris the play has been pleasing nightly New York audiences for some time. But I...
Moussorgsky's "Josua Navine", a spirited cantata, was sung altogether as well as anything all evening. Following it, a small group sang some charming Yiddish folk-songs which were as pleasing even to those who did not know the language as to those who did: Mrs. Gideon's expansive and...
The plays this year show the improvement of experience. Not only is the movement of the scenes somewhat more unified, thanks to Mr. Burrell's efforts at adaptation in the wide range allowed him in the Towneley Cycle, but the roles themselves are in some cases taken by the same...
The plot is negligible. It is concerned with wild cat oil stock in which Pa Potter is flattered into sinking all his meagre savings. His daughter meanwhile becomes engaged to an ex-life-guard of pleasing personality but no prospects. Toward extinguishing this match and regaining his money are Pa...