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...Pattison team (now disbanded- TIME, March 2), play the Great Ones with far nicer balance and finesse. The Frenchmen scored with their jazz, the sort of thing which made Le Boeuf s reputation and has since stood transplanting into a thousand and more concerts. There was an arrangement of Braham's "Limehouse Blues," given a dozen sombre shades by Doucet's insinuating bass, one of Gershwin's "That Certain Feeling," another of Youmans' "Tea for Two." Unlike Maier & Pattison who took turns carrying the melody, Wiener always plays first piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cafe Music | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Left Bank might have been a good satire if Elmer Rice (Street Scene) had not let his characters talk him into taking them too seriously. John Shelby (Horace Braham), a young American writer living in Paris, is always on the point of writing something good; meanwhile he complains bitterly of the hackwork he must do to keep himself and his wife (Katherine Alexander) alive in a third-rate hotel room on the Boulevard Montparnasse and to keep his son in an "advanced" school in England, where he is being "cured" of a mother-fixation. The U. S., he declares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...exciting that even Otto Kahn, you may be certain, would wish to set his teeth in the ear of the suave, knavish judge and in that of the dirty district attorney. The minor parts are badly taken; but Charles Bickford, as the flaring Macready, Horace Braham, as the less truculent, beseeching Capraro, and Sylvia Sidney, as the well-gowned and eventually hysterical fiancee of the former make you, as one shrill memuer of the audience remarked, wish to "go to Boston and kill a few people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/27/1896 | See Source »

...base hits-Rand, Burgess, T. Stevenson, Base on balls-by Haughton 3, by Braham 4, by Mullen 3. Struck out-by Haughton 2, by Braham 2. Umpire-Murray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/27/1896 | See Source »

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