Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swarthmore as the No. 1 U. S. college, Frank Aydelotte as the ablest U. S. college president. Little Swarthmore aspires to cultivate its students' emotions and morals as well as their minds, is a good all around institution. Aydelotte, 58, a onetime Rhodes scholar, golfs in the low 80s, is a whiz at money raising, loved by his students, a good all around...
...Copland was. His music for the "character-ballet" Billy the Kid, much of it based on cowboy songs, was close-knit, percussive, incisive, wasting not a grace note in its evocation of the dapper, New York-born killer who flourished in the Southwest in the '703 and '80s. The choreography of Eugene Loring and the dancing of the Ballet Caravan were no less exciting...
Paderewski's real enthusiasms are all for the events and customs of the plush-upholstered '80s and '90s, for the theatre of Sarah Bernhardt, the court life of Victorian England, the restaurants of old New York. A recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as "touch" in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski...
Died. Edward J. Watson, 77, who as a telegraph messenger in the early 80s inspired the tales which Wisconsin's late Author-Governor George Wilbur Peck wrote up in the Peck's Bad Boy series; after long illness; in Milwaukee...
...Yonkers (by Thornton Wilder; produced by Herman Shumlin) is Thornton Wilder on a lark. The play, like the word, is rather out-of-date: Wilder has rewritten an old Viennese farce with no thought of streamlining it. The scene of The Merchant of Yonkers is Manhattan in the '80s. but old as the European theatre is the plot of the sweated apprentices who sneak off for a holiday, of their miserly old master (Percy Waram) on the hunt for a wife, and of the obliging Mrs. Fixit (Jane Cowl) who fixes things to suit herself. The slapstick...