Word: bart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proudly in the front rank of contemporary composers stands Bela Bartók, Hungarian. Symphonophiles the world over know him for a revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms. Last week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear...
...moon, but from you ... this is too much. Do you not know the ends to which the defenders of this decrepit old society will go? ... Are you waiting to see them kill us first so that you can build us a monument? . . . Aside from the fate that stares Bart and me in the face, I would not care to know that labor has not the courage to face the battle with a showing of solidarity that will force the hand of the implacable enemy to desist from what it plans to do. ... That is all. I am not writing this...
...departure of Little Brown & Co. Shorter than a novel; longer than a short-story; cost, a dollar the volume, are the E. Phillips Oppenheim "pocket thrillers." The stories are not new. England has known them in her magazines or as "shilling shockers". The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe, Bart.; The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Cray; Madame and Her Twelve Virgins; The Channay Syndicate. Trash as good as Mr. Op- penheim's has its place in the world...
...neighboring country gentleman's daughter, Connaught O'Brien (Katherine Alexander), both born to the grassy slopes of Ireland, in love with their land, their horses, their people and each other. She is forced to marry a villain who shoots her pet race horse after good old Bart had won the big steeplechase. The race is a childish, ridiculous, clumsy scene, wherein one horse, galloping a mile a minute on a treadmill, was easily outstripped by the gingerly lope of another animal who had only to thread his way across a stationary stage. Later on, the villain commits suicide...
...Jubilee gets into full swing at 8 o'clock with the beginning of the dance. Bart Lowe and Billy Lossex will both be on hand to furnish continuous music in the Common Room and Dining Hall until 2 o'clock...