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...their light treatment, the authors, Earle Crooker and Lowell Brentano, have kept the production from being a mere musical biography, and by the introduction of "Live" have prevented it from becoming a mere period piece; moreover, the transition between scenes--America and France, the present and the past--is made admirably clear by a writing device known as "Telautograph Projection...
...casts of the operatic scenes thus sampled contained no great names. For their productions, thick-spectacled Stage Director Felix Brentano and Conductor Fritz Mahler had chosen young, cooperative U. S. singers, devoid of upstage ideas. Thus equipped they rehearsed their operatic scenes as a conductor rehearses a symphony orchestra, shaped each musical phrase and each dramatic moment to fit, coordinated the action of the characters down to the 'slightest detail. By performance time they had done some 200 hours of solo, group and general rehearsing, far more than the most lavishly financed large-scale opera house could have afforded...
...Lowell Brentano starts the first of a series of articles on the publishing business. "More than anything else," he says, "it is the variety of human contacts that, to me, makes publishing exciting and glamorous." He continues by telling in an interesting way some anecdotes concerning Mrs. Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, Gene Tunney, and George Moore...
...entered the War he volunteered, drove an ambulance with the Italian Army. After two post-War years in Paris as stage manager for Jacques Copeau and an abortive attempt to start a U. S. newspaper in Rome, he went back to Manhattan, got a job in Brentano's publishing house, married Fania Mindell, theatrical scene designer. Piqued by thoughts of Savonarola, Author Roeder wrote and published a book about him but was disappointed with it. He decided to write it over again; The Man of the Renaissance was the result. Fair, 43, with a cold intelligent eye, erect carriage...
...Brentano's, Inc., largest retail book chain in the U. S., passed into receivership. Gross sales last year were reported "about $1,500,000" as compared to $3,000,000 in "a good year." Cause for the receivership was the petition of seven publishers to whom Brentano's owed sums up to $19,000 each. For some time the firm has been operating on a standstill agreement providing the freezing of some $375,000 owed to publishers. Last week two or three publishers grew restless. Receivership followed. Other publishers pointed out that if Brentano's were forced...