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...Walt Disney has given many artists something new to think about. They like to think that movie animation is in its infancy, that Silly Symphonies are preludes to Serious Symphonies which will employ all the resources of painting wedded to music and cinemaction. The obstacle that many of them bleat about: no film company will back anything but popular entertainment. Last week in London an original artist named Len Lye, working on a shoestring, crashed through with an animated movie called Color Flight which previewers hailed as art, as entertainment, and as the freshest stuff of its kind since Disney...
Meanwhile, Composer Strauss continued to startle and scandalize staid concert audiences in more subtle ways. He flouted time-honored symphonic proprieties by writing naturalistic musical descriptions of mundane scenes and events. In his symphonic poem, Don Quixote, he made the brass instruments of the orchestra bleat like sheep. In his later Symphonia Domestica, an enormous orchestra of 108 players was set to work imitating the sound of a baby in a bathtub. He boasted that he could depict anything in music recognizably, even a glass of water. Critics deplored his vulgarity, but they had to admit that Composer Strauss...
...however, a group of woolmen founded a wool tops futures market under the wing of the New York Cotton Exchange. Lately wool prices have slumped as have most other commodities and last week the wool business, still unused to the complexities of a futures exchange, suddenly began to bleat that the wool market is largely to blame...
...mayor of Peiping was ready to do Japan's bidding, prepared for a Gilbert-&-Sullivan ceremony in the Confucian Hall of Perfection, rounded up 80 orphans to bleat traditional Confucian music, to watch him kowtow nine times to China's sage...
...issue of prime importance. For months unbiased voters have scratched their puzzled heads while Republicans snarled that the Democrats were brazenly turning last year's $4,880,000,000 relief appropriation into a campaign fund and Democrats replied that the Republican charge was merely the familiar old bleat of the Outs against the fictitious misdeeds of the Ins. Until last week neither party had cared or was able to back up its position with facts & figures. Even though highly partisan and hence open to the gravest question, the facts & figures which both political camps suddenly made public represented...