Word: stringes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last fortnight big Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and strong man of the British trades-union movement, rushed to Scotland for a string of speeches against Communism. The working-class districts of Glasgow and Edinburgh are the noisiest in Britain, and there Orator Bevin was fiercely heckled by workers, who jumped up at his meetings and gave the Communist clenched-fist salute. In his roaring rebuttals Big Ernie went further than any other present British Cabinet member to speak his mind about Communism...
Within a year Soprano Pons made her debut, in 1928, in the provincial French opera of Mulhouse, Alsace. Her voice was heard in a few more second-string opera houses-Cannes, Vichy, La Baule-and, still unknown in France, pricked the ears of a couple of tourists. They were Maria Gay, an oldtime opera singer, and her husband Giovanni Zenatello. They took up the innocent Lily, promised her an audition at the Metropolitan. Within a few months Lily Pons was taking 16 Metropolitan curtain calls in Lucia, 30 a few nights later in Rigoletto. Later the Zenatellos sued...
...Andre Kostelanetz is a competent stick-waver, and on records and the radio he plays, not symphonies and not jazz, but the kind of music plain people really like: his arrangements of "standard" pieces, Victor Herbert and such, beautifully done up in balanced brass, reed and string tones, as rich as a lobster Newburg well laced with sherry. In summer, the team of Pons & Kostelanetz earns $5,500 a night. The 300,000 people they have attracted to Chicago's Grant Park of a summer evening is the biggest crowd ever assembled to hear good music. Says Lily Pons...
Said the Doc last week: "Canterbury began on an $8,000 shoe string. Today it is a million-dollar educational plant devoted to the cause of Catholic Action . . . only school of its kind, really. . . . Sometimes I can hardly believe Canterbury is what it is today...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Cromwell Bosley, 45. foremost U. S. woman horse trainer, breeder of unbeaten Chase Me, who this year took over the big racing string owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Graham Lewis (Elizabeth Arden); when her car left the road, crashed into a tree; near Baltimore...