Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marry another (Anita Louise), unaware that he is leaving an unborn son behind him. On this star-crossed situation there follow several slow-footed years, distinguished in the film by bright directorial fillips and badly managed transitions, while the Furies mobilize for the unreasonable onslaught that is to come. Author-Director Edmund Goulding supplies what the film industry knows as a Keystone finish (and a happy...
...risen sharply in the past two years. This week, in a book called A Little Night Music,* a plea was entered not for more Gershwin and Kern on home saxophones, but for more bum Brahms and Beethoven, played by groups of amateurs on their flutes, clarinets, fiddles, cellos. Its author is Gerald White Johnson, editorial writer of the Baltimore Sun, co-author of The Sunpapers of Baltimore. Though Author Johnson says he is dull of ear and asbestos of soul so far as "the fire of genius that burned in the young Mozart'' is concerned...
...much good fun as bowling or stud poker. Save for a chapter on "The Art of Coming In." in which he details the feelings of a flautist resting for 74 measures of a Haydn symphony in the knowledge that he must enter on the first beat of the 75th, Author Johnson gives little practical advice in his lean volume. He suggests that none but home-players thoroughly enjoy concert performances such as one he heard of Mozart's Erne Kleine Nachtmusik (whence his book's title), which began, for him, with "the sudden, awed, incredulous realization that they...
...Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought him a bright boy. But it was a British social philosopher visiting at Harvard, Graham Wallas (author of The Great Society which in title at least was the obvious forerunner of Pundit Lippmann's latest book) who really fired Lippmann's imagination, gave his sprouting career its direction. When Lincoln Steffens, the late great muckraker, went looking in Harvard Yard for "the ablest mind that...
...Left. By Author-Playwright Sir James Barrie; an estate of ?167,694; in London. To Actress Elisabeth Bergner he left ?2,000 for "the best performance ever given in any play of mine (The Boy David)." To his divorced wife, Mrs. Mary Cannan, he left ?1,000 and a life annuity of ?600. To his adopted son, Publisher Peter Llewellyn Davies, inspiration for Peter Pan, he left ?6,000 and half the residuary estate. The other half of the residuary estate, in addition to ?30,000 and the royalties from all his works except Peter Pan, he left to Lady...