Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith on the cornet, calls this the greatest blues record ever made. Careless Love is W. C. Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic for all connoisseurs of the "sliphorn." For Backwater Blues, James P. Johnson, teacher of "Fats" Waller, furnishes an able piano accompaniment. Only three of the twelve sides in the Bessie Smith Album are devoted to Broadway songs: Muddy Water, Alexander's Ragtime Band, There'll Be a Hot Time...
Public. Why a highly literate nation buys so few books is a problem that has baffled others besides publishers. In their classic studies of Middletown and Middletown in Transition, the Lynds noted that Muncie had no bookstore, no rental library except the new-book shelf at the public library; that while the circulation of library books doubled during the Depression, new books in general encountered ''creeping apathy." A possible explanation is that Americans love brightly-colored automobiles, flowers, bright clothing, scandals, fast-moving cinema, more than they like books. But the sale of novels like Gone With...
...axiomatic that previous records count for practically nothing in the H-Y classic, and almost as axiomatic that upsets prove the rule. Impartial, outside speculations on this game have almost always been on a 50-50 basis because it is realized that when two teams go all-out at a high emotional tension, anything can happen...
...tail feathers against the bizarre, glaringly-colored backgrounds of Nathalie Gontcharova. With the often repetitious opera airs of Rimsky-Korsakov cut to ballet length, Le Coq d'Or made good colorful sense, its choreography by Michel Fokine a happy blend of pantomime, burlesque, Russian boot kicks and the classic style at which the Monte Carlo troupe excels-dancing sur les pointes (on the toes...
...next cat experiment of Drs. Clark & Ward was even more exciting; gave more specific support to this classic but never entirely proved theory. They removed half of their cat's hind brain thus preventing radiation of stimuli, and touched the sound half with an electric current. This time the cat slowly raised only the foreleg on the stimulated side, slowly put it down. Patient Drs. Clark & Ward are seeking other motor centres...