Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the name of a very odd Scottish village-one that long ago miraculously vanished, but reappears for a single day every hundred years. Just as the village comes to life one 1946 spring morning, a pair of young American hunters stumble spang upon its 18th Century market place-and the season's most engaging fantasy gets underway...
Died. The Duke of Manchester, 69, jolly, roly-poly, spectacularly spendthrift British peer, 18th in rank of Britain's 26 nonroyal dukes, veteran of many a day in court (three bankruptcy trials), several in jail (for fraud: he was convicted, later acquitted of pawning his mother's jewels); in Seaford, England...
Mozart: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord (Alexander Schneider, violin, and Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord; Columbia, 12 sides). A first-rate sonata team making itself at home in the 18th Century. They play Mozart's melodious Sonatas in C Major, B Flat Major and G Major. (Alexander Schneider is an alumnus of the great Budapest String Quartet; brother Mischa still plays in it.) Performance: excellent...
...audiences spreading beyond the earnest, humorless cultists he once played to. Says he: "Audiences used to be largely record collectors and cranks who also liked folk dancing because it was pure and sexless." Kirkpatrick, a bachelor, lives in a tiny Manhattan apartment crowded with two harpsichords, an 18th Century piano, a clavichord and a thousand books. To keep his instruments in tune he seldom turns on the radiator ("My friends stay away in the winter to keep from catching cold"). He plays Bach and Mozart with a hard, dry purity-and sometimes, say critics, with a little too much banging...
Died. Andrew J. Volstead, 87, tobacco-chewing, publicity-shy country lawyer who co-authored (with the late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas) and gave his name to the National Prohibition Enforcement Act, which implemented the 18th Amendment; in Granite Falls, Minn...