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...Calling Charles Ives, one of America's greatest composers, "an insurance broker who pioneered polytonal music in the U.S. in his spare time" [TIME, Sept. 27] is tantamount to saying that Herman Melville was a customs clerk who dabbled in literature or Goethe a theatrical manager who once in a while wrote a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Married. Mala Powers, 22, auburn-haired cinemactress (Outrage, Cyrano de Bergerac) who nearly died from a blood disease acquired in a 1951 Christmas entertainment tour in Korea; and Monte Vanton, 36, real estate broker; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...role of Mosca, the amanuensis of immorality, Jouvet is a cunning rascal. He argues an insanely jealous husband into offering his wife to Volpone in token of friendship with the considered aplomb of a conservative stock broker...

Author: By Rosert J. Schoenserg, | Title: Volpone | 10/14/1954 | See Source »

...Ivesiana wasn't very clear, it was fun, and so the crowd gave the cast a nice hand at the end. Next day most of Manhattan's mystified dance reviewers declined to evaluate the ballet, although they paid their respects to distinguished Composer Ives (an insurance broker who pioneered polytonal music in the U.S. in his spare time, died this year at 79). But the Daily News's Douglas Watt found something positive to report about the ballet in Allegra Kent's athletic performance. It soon became apparent, he wrote after watching her costume pull tighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Balanchine Puzzler | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Divorced. By Gloria de Haven, 28, Hollywood musicomedy singer (Down Among the Sheltering Palms): Manhattan Real Estate Broker Martin S. Kimmel, 38, her second husband (first: Cinemactor John Payne); after fourteen months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 6, 1954 | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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