Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the California Building and Loan Commissioner resigned. One reason: public belief that a careful investigation of the Guaranty's figures would have revealed its condition. In Manhattan the case of Bank of United States may prove a classic example of mismanagement (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week in Manhattan another bank, Chelsea Bank & Trust Co., closed. Not important in the Manhattan banking structure, Chelsea's predicament has interesting points, chief of which is accusation by the State Banking Department that Red rumormongers deliberately started the run on the bank. In Philadelphia last fortnight, Bankers Trust...
...Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock (Victor, $8)-A scholarly reading of the happy Spring Symphony written by Schumann soon after his marriage to rigid .Clara Wieck. Schumann's Symphony No. 2 by the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Hans Pfitzner (Brunswick, $7.50)-Schumann in a graver, more classic mood capably interpreted. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe by Philippe Gaubert and Orchestre des Concerts Straram (Columbia, $4)-An excellent performance of the symphonic suite commissioned by the late Serge Diaghilev for his Russian Ballet. The originality and finish which marked even Ravel's earliest work is shown in this...
...might well be received as the outstanding event in the history of this Harvard Club since its European tour. Combining next April with this Symphony orchestra in two stage performances of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," the Glee Club continues to follow the trend away from the Collegiate towards the classic mode...
...crop was uncomfortably bumper. "Hitherto we have never attempted to market the 'green' product," said a spokesman for the French vintners last week, "but that was only because the buyers have always preferred that it be made into wine in France. If the Americans prefer, all our classic vintages can be shipped green, and, as they say, 'developed' in their homes...
...light beam has raced away from it, down the mile tube and back again, another one of its 32 faces has turned to catch the light. By measuring the time it takes the revolving mirror to turn Dr. Michelson reckons the speed. This performance is different from the classic Michelson-Morley experiment on which Dr. Einstein based his theory of Relativity. The Michelson-Morley work, performed in 1887 in a basement room at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, was carried on to test the presence of an "ether-drift," required two beams of light traveling perpendicular to one another...