Word: blende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parliamentary government since he set up his self-styled "Dictatorship without a Dictator" in 1926. Instead of the oldtime Chamber of Deputies, an elected National Assembly met last week; and instead of a Senate, a Corporative Council appointed by Carmona who is very much a Dictator. With this blend of Fascism and Democracy, the spry, spare general, who has Portugal's comparatively huge army in his pocket, hopes to cure Portugal gradually of its nervous habit of periodic revolution-18 since...
Beginning another U. S. tour, Schnabel played last week with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted for the first time by towering Otto Klemperer.* The concerto was Beethoven's Emperor, a performance that Philadelphians will long remember for its masterly blend of power and tenderness. Mozart and Schubert will have a place on Schnabel's recital programs this winter. But for New Yorkers he has another stiff Beethoven test. Next week he will play the Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. Said he to his manager last week: "You may warn the public, if you like, that they...
...some Debussy piano music, Mary Garden swept on the stage in her oldtime glamorous way. Her singing, as ever, was curiously uneven and husky, a weird combination of song and emotionalized speech. For sensitive listeners who could forget formal vocal technique each of her Debussy songs was a perfect blend of text and music...
...Victor Herbert's famed operetta would amount to more than a ridiculous calamity. Fortunately, Producer Hal Roach, well-versed in the art of gag comedies, saw fit to throw most of his original material out the studio window, retaining only three Herbert songs. What remains is a queer blend of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Laurel & Hardy, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. That the result makes no sense whatever in no way diminishes the fun of Babes in Toyland. Ollie Dee (Hardy) and Stannie Dum (Laurel) are boarders at the establishment of the Old Lady Who Lives...
...Children's Hour (by Lillian Hellman; Herman Shumlin, producer) is a neat theatrical blend of A High Wind In Jamaica and The Captive. Playwright Hellman, divorced wife of Cinema Scenarist Arthur Kober, has learned how to put a play together. She is also wise, to the arcane criminality of childhood, to the no less delicate subject of female homosexuality...