Word: basset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most people know that George Bernard Shaw was once a music critic, writing for London papers under the name Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library...
Divorced. Sacha Guitry, 54, French actor-author-director; by Jacqueline Delubac (Isabelle-Jacqueline Basset), his third wife and leading lady; in Paris. Grounds: desertion. Sacha Guitry's other two marriages were also to his leading ladies (Charlotte Lysès, Yvonne Printemps); both also ended in divorce...
Hounds (Afghans, basset hounds, beagles, dachshunds, foxhounds, etc.). Ch. White Rose of Boveway. a sleek greyhound belonging to Harry Twyford Peters, chairman of the show, last year reached the finals. But so keen was the competition among hounds last week, that Judge Joseph Z. Batten passed her over, picked a stubby beagle as best, a stubby dachshund as next best. He waved the dogs to winners stalls; the crowd clapped; friends congratulated the beagle's owner. Then Judge Batten thought better, put first the dachshund, Ch. Fox von Teckelhof, owned by Hugh O'Neill of Joplin...
...such music reviews (feuilletons to the journalists of the day) in Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor's evening Star. Often infuriating because the glib reviewer seemed to know everything and to assume that his readers knew nothing, the articles were signed "Corno di Bassetto'' (basset horn- an old wind instrument now superseded by the clarinet). This week, publication of the collected Corno di Bassetto's Star pieces† reminded old (81) George Bernard Shaw's loyal public that he had served his hitch with the musical dead watch long, long...
Wilbur Woodland, wearing the Ellzolors, won as expected in the two-mile race, and finished some 40 to 50 yards in front of Basset of Cornell. Henry Marcy for a time threatened the second place winner, but his sprint began too late...