Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vaudeville was back on Broadway for the first time since 1932. The new offering, Vaudeville Marches On, retains the old spirit and most of the old gags. Best number: The Wiere Brothers, three European cutups who literally draw laughter...
...keenest Kieran of all is the New York Times's, John Francis, considered by many the best-equipped sports philosopher since William Hazlitt (1778-1830), known to many more as the least stumpable question-answerer on Canada Dry's Information Please program...
...trick photography are less inexhaustible than its producers supposed. Once the side-splitting spectacle of doors opening without apparent human aid has lost its novelty, the picture's only surprises are occasional droll antics by Actors Young and Burke, and a few scraps of bright dialogue. Best line: Mrs. Topper's comment on Gallic manners: "Too bad the people in America aren't French...
Brahms Song Society, Volume I (Alexander Kipnis, bass, Gerald Moore, pianist; Victor: 12 sides). Fourteen of Brahms's best-known Lieder, including the Vier ernste Gesänge, sung by an acknowledged master...
...Best (though not the best written) biography of Macaulay since George Otto Trevelyan's (Macaulay's nephew), published in 1876, is Lord Macaulay (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), by Richmond Croom Beatty, a 40-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University. Outstanding is its fairness, its reconstruction of Macaulay's times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress...