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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Damrosch and the National Broadcasting Co.'s National Orchestra (TIME, Oct. 29) gave the world premiere of a symphonic work called S O S by one Robert Braine. Composer Braine had his inspiration a year ago in a radio station when S. O. S. calls came in from a Greek ship off Georgia. The same dots and dashes now punctuate his three-minute composition which, if uneventful, was fittingly enough the first to have its premiere by radio...
...through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic had guessed. The $10,000 was his, he said, and the laugh on them. But to many it seemed singularly empty laughter. The Columbia Phonograph Co.. donors of the prize money, could not believe that anyone would make a joke for the centennial of Schubert's death, cabled Composer Atterberg and chose to accept a rather dubious denial. Others, less interested, reflected that a really good comedian rarely laughs at his own jokes; that...
...Somme, made with the co-operation of the British Army Council, is a war picture without plot, a rapid newsreel of the fighting that went on in the mud and rain in 1916 and 1917. Unlike those recent films of battle in which the courage and good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
Swallow Airplane Co. Wichita, Kan. / Commercial / Light sport, commercial & training / . . . . . . . .$1,795-$9,000 / First commercial airplane makers...
Glenn L. Martin Co. Baltimore, Md. / Martin Bombers / Military / . . . . . . . Special / Pioneer flights; War service...