Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passages, but Mrs. Goldovsky's rendering of the three Mozart arias was somewhat less than Brilliant. Her voice, though warm in tone, was lacking in firmness at times, and seemed strained on the high notes. The extreme range of the first aria, however, (low A to high C) may account for some of this difficulty. Richard Burgin, concert master of the Boston Symphony, demonstrated his remarkable precision and control in the "Haffner" Serenade in D major (K. 250), although two of his cadenzas seemed some what too romantic for a Mozart concerto...
...TIME, June 21, you have a short account of the African Kenya bird, locally called weaver bird [which builds its nest vertically instead of horizontally]. I enclose a photo of a tree full of weaver birds' nests. The photo was taken in Urundi...
Included in the picture is a remarkably frank account of Japanese methods which, though pretty obvious in spots, in no more sanguinary then the real thing...
TIME, June 14, carried an exciting account of the exploits performed by Brigadier General Carl R. Gray's special railway corps in North Africa. Perhaps your readers will be interested in the background of a typical unit in this special corps...
Dixie (Paramount) is a dull, none-too-faithful account of the career of Dan Emmett, author of Dixie, and one of the four Original Virginia Minstrels of 1843. Even the personality of Bing Crosby as Emmett, plus the great historic theme song, plus Technicolor, cannot enliven the picture's turgid progress through three conflagrations, too many minstrel shows leading to fame & fortune in New Orleans. When Crosby sings, fans will not be critical. But much of the time he is engaged in crude, unconvincing romances with Marjorie Reynolds and Dorothy Lamour. And most of the time the minstrelsy...