Word: stringes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...shape, and presently Thomas headed for England, where he wowed the Britishers with his tales of Lawrence in Arabia, Allenby in Palestine. So popular was the Lawrence show that Thomas was able to travel round the world with it, assign Carnegie and lesser vocal lights to handle four second-string companies in England. Altogether, Thomas delivered "With Lawrence in Arabia" over 4,000 times, to over 3,000,000 people, made over a million dollars from it. By product from his lecture was the book With Lawrence in Arabia, the first of a spate of works bearing his name...
...defensive standout was second - string center, Burgy Ayres, whose rapid improvement makes "Lone Star" Dietz' chances to open the season as the ranking pivot man quite doubtful. On the offense, it was Bill Brown's effective blocking which stole the show. But in the passing drill, Don McNicol and his receivers were not able to make connections often enough to please Coach Harlow...
From 150 scores submitted, a committee headed by Composer Richard Donovan chose works by 36 composers for performance in the Yaddo music room. Best-known name on the programs was Oklahoma-born Roy Harris (TIME, April 8), who provided a fairly doughy set of preludes and fugues for string quartet. Quincy Porter's eight-minute quintet for flute and strings, based on A-Tisket, A-Tasket, was the brightest bit. Ross Lee Finney gave out Bletheris, a monody for voice and orchestra based upon a section of The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, which was spoiled because Mr. Finney sang...
...Basil Rathbone a Manhattan social superba. When Crosby and Martin set out to write under their own names they are accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin plot Director Victor Schertzinger has managed to string to gether 90 minutes of first-rate crooning by Crosby and Martin, lively trumpeting by famed one-armed Swingster Wingy Mannone, some casual, restful reading of Scenarist Dwight Taylor's smooth lines...
Yale, last June, was expected to snap the Crimson's string in the Junior Varsity race, and, perhaps, in the Varsity. After the combination and Freshman boats laughed their way to victory, the Jayvees jumped Yale, held the lead and won by two lenghts. Then the Varsity never led after the first 12 strokes, counted its monumental 31-second victory...