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Choosing performers shrewdly, presenting many of them (e. g., Jeritza, Lily Pons, Flagstad) when they were hot spot-news has done much to keep up Merola's prestige. But, though imported singers are headlined, home talent has its chance. Last autumn San Franciscans had reason to be proud of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Curtains Up | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Arises the question how do you acquire an even flow of language? Well I have discovered a very convenient pons assinorum. My little "donkey-bridge" is provided by Messrs. Corneille, Racine Petrarch or any of the minor Latin poets. Read them with all their umtadee-umtadee-um for about five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hendrik Wiltem Van Loon Sees Future Harvard as Great Fortress of Learning | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

Lux. Most ambitious dramatic broadcasting by cinemactors is done in the "Lux Radio Theatre," which started modestly two years ago as a program emanating on Sunday afternoons from Manhattan's Radio City. Policy of the program was to pick up cinemactors who had gone East for some fun. Top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Show | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

TIME, July 6, states that Lily Pons sang the Star-Spangled Banner at the late Democratic Convention. Not, apparently, so. Miss Kitty Carlisle sang it-from a perch four floors above her invisible accompanist. I saw Miss Carlisle the following evening, and she told me so herself. Doubt her, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

TIME stated that Lily Pons sang the Star-Spangled Banner, not at the Convention but at the acceptance ceremonies in Franklin Field.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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