Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the picture changed. This fall Conductor Klemperer was rushed off to Boston to be operated on for a brain tumor. By this month his health had become so precarious that he had to give up his conducting plans for the season. With the health of their orchestra also precarious, the board of directors decided on a desperate blood transfusion: an injection of high-spending cultural barbarians among their own withering shirt fronts. Last week, while the starchier board members still creaked and grumbled, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced: 1) a move from Los Angeles' solemn, downtown Philharmonic Auditorium...
Mozart: Divertimento No. 10 (K. 247) (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 6 sides) and Divertimento No. 17 (K. 334) (Lener Quartet with Aubrey and Dennis Brain, horns; Columbia: 10 sides). First complete recordings of two early but elegant Mozart items...
...continued when he stuffed the Record with weird anti-Roosevelt statements, when he pointed out how many Jews head House committees. Fortnight ago the Thorkelson decline thumped bottom when he packed the Record with an eleven-column letter supposedly written by Colonel Edward M. House. Woodrow Wilson's brain trust, to David Lloyd George, on June 10, 1919. The letter, instantly spotted as a fake by scholars, proposed a fantastically detailed program for making the U. S. once again a British colony. The letter had been traced in 1920 by Congressional investigators to one Dr. William J. Maloney...
...They found it was no Hitchcock but an authentic Laughton. Scarcely a shot in the whole picture revealed the famed British director's old mastery of cunning camera, sly humor, shrewd suspense. But Charles Laughton's impersonation of a Nero-like Cornish squire who is the paranoiac brain behind a gang of land pirates was magnificent in the eye-rolling, head-cocking, lip-pursing, massively mincing Laughton style...
Wells urges his favorite project of a new World Encyclopaedia or "World Brain," but his sense of humor bitterly tells him that even if endowed it might fall into the hands of Nicholas Murray Butler. "I am impatient and at the same time I do not know how to accelerate matters," says H. G. Wells. "I do not think this is simply a case of the distress of an old man in a hurry...