Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning, if we have not already turned, from the autumn offerings of the Hollywood general staff, we may cool our prematurely furrowed brown and indulge in one or two genuinely escapist, laughs at the presentation of "A Noun, La Liberte." Not even Lubitsch, whose sophistication is in the grand manner, has made anything half so gay. And for the intellectuals present there are implications, yes indeed...
...Walter Mayer as assistant. As with the late great Charles Proteus Steinmetz whom General Electric provided with all monies he ever required for livelihood and experiment. Dr. Einstein's "salary" will be all he ever wants. He will be provided a home at Princeton, will work (beginning next autumn) only from Oct. 1 to April 15 for the rest of his active life; will teach only what, when, if and as he pleases; will spend his summers sailing his little boat on Berlin's Wannsee. Exclaimed Dr. Einstein when all this scholastic luxury became certain: "This is Heaven...
...front cover*) When autumn comes, lights are lit at night in the opera houses and orchestra halls of the land. Top hats and ermine come out of the closets of the wealthy, precious tickets are clutched firmly by the poor but cultured, and Music returns to its own in the U. S. Last week the season began on a national scale. In Boston well-groomed Sergei Koussevitzky, in Manhattan electric Arturo Toscanini, in Philadelphia blond-mopped Leopold Stokowski raised their batons over the country's leading orchestras. As usual, and contrary to advance notices which promised conventional music...
Since the War, San Francisco's opera, like Los Angeles', has been limited to a brief autumn season when artists from Chicago and Manhattan have gone out, sung with a local orchestra, local choristers. San Francisco's opera has had healthy, general support. Instead of a Samuel Insull or Mrs. Bok it has had 2.500 member-backers who have contributed from $50 to $100 apiece. Until last year it paid for itself. And this year, when Chicago's and Philadelphia's opera houses are dark, the lights will go on in a house made possible...
...Plunked down in the wilderness, the entire city of Longview (pop. 10,500) was constructed for employes. Long-Bell became the world's largest lumber company. Then, two years after the Northwest operation was begun, said Founder Long, "the lumber business just dried up." Dividends were passed in the autumn of 1927, earnings shriveled and last spring Long-Bell failed to pay its bond interest...