Word: weirding
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...Debussy concert tour last week, sang in Monrovia. Calif., later in Los Angeles. After her longtime accompanist, Jean Dansereau, had opened the program with some Debussy piano music, Mary Garden swept on the stage in her oldtime glamorous way. Her singing, as ever, was curiously uneven and husky, a weird combination of song and emotionalized speech. For sensitive listeners who could forget formal vocal technique each of her Debussy songs was a perfect blend of text and music...
...team left their rooms at about 11.15 in all manner of weird conveyances and arrived at the Varsity club at a little after 11.15 where a tasty lunch was spread, for them, prepared as only Mr. Waistcoat can. Delicious hot steaks were set appetizingly out in long platters, garnished with quaint sprigs of parsley. On the attractively decorated table were set large bowls of Raspberry jam, out of which peeped wide eyed little seeds. The steaming hot toast out of the big Union ovens came in and was eagerly devoured by the hungry horde of football fighters...
...summer, as is Fred Bratton who works for Mr. Leverett, owner of "The Poplars," and whose wife is expecting her twelfth. There is the old sculptor, Stirling, always welcome. It looks like a good summer among friends. Nor would Rita Woodruff's affair with the Polish boy who sings weird songs, or the youthful infatuation of Judith Crawford for Bill Woodruff (aged 46), upset the usual harmony. But there is a newcomer, Mrs. Fernanda Milbank, who leases "The Poplars" and arrives with her spoiled, affected, unhappy little daughter, Geraldine...
...night last week before all the Californians the opera house could hold. The dancing they saw was expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane and tin to represent the dynamos, switches, flywheels and pistons which young Soviet Composer Alexander Mossolov had in mind when he wrote his noisy, hard driving Iron Foundry...
...final chapter in the weird history of Dr. Joao Frederico Normano, former lecturer on South American economics at Harvard, and internationally kown economist was written yesterday when Judge Elisha H. Brewster ordered him discharged from custody...