Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your "taste test" suggested by Subscriber Lyman Richards of Boston reminds me of a sworn-to-be-true story heard recently at dinner. It does not concern Fiddler Kreisler, nor a Blind sign and cup hung on any famed musician. But it is a thrust, I think, against Mr. Richards' complaint of a widespread musical hypocrisy and his statement that people "impressed by the eminence of artists claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand...
...This order was obeyed by eleven dealers in West Philadelphia. But in all other sections of the city it was universally ignored except in the case of Clarence Brown, a blind man. . . . At 9:45 Saturday night, a new order was sent from the Curtis-Martin offices, which said in effect: 'Go ahead, boys, and sell The Record. It's all right...
Sirs: College. please TIME'S discontinue brilliance sending cannot TIME to gild Canisius suppression or blind us to the slurs on things Catholic. R. EICHHORN, S. J. President...
...life, gets the most out of the glib, skillful, and rather shallow little story about a newsman who quarrelled with his wife because she made him feel inferior and made up with her when he found he could stand on his own legs. Silliest shot: Claudette Colbert going blind after drinking some liquor intended for sportswriter consumption. Claudette Colbert (nee Chauchoin) was born in Paris in 1905. Her French parents, after financial reverses, migrated to Manhattan when she was seven years old. She was studying painting when a friend gave her three lines to say in a play called...
...that much musical hypocrisy exists among our symphonic and concert audiences who, impressed by the eminence of the artists, claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand, I propose a test. Let Artist Kreisler seat himself, shabbily disguised, on a camp stool at a busy sidewalk corner. A " Blind" sign above his dark glasses, let him draw his magic bow, and play, as only he can play it, the Caprice Viennois. How many, think you, of his applauding audience, as they hurried by, would pause longer than to jangle a few pennies into the tin cup strapped...