Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These words, sung to the taut accompaniment of a studio orchestra, emerged last Sunday night from such U. S. radios as were tuned in on Columbia Broadcasting System's "Workshop of the Air" (producer of Archibald MacLeish's radio play in verse, Fall of the City, Stephen Vincent Benét's Paid Revere). The Captain who expected people to bow down was, it appeared, a Fascist, for his "Purple Shirts" aimed to exterminate "the mongrel race." Mr. Musiker, the composer who wanted to present to someone a tune that was running through his head, found...
Thus went I've Got the Tune, written and composed for Columbia's Workshop by Marc Blitzstein, whose The Cradle Will Rock rocked the WPA Federal Theatre in Manhattan last spring (TIME, June 28), will be put on Broadway this fall on a number of Sunday nights. I've Got the Tune, with Composer Blitzstein singing the role of Mr. Musiker, was his and the Workshop's first venture in radio operetta. For some listeners, Blitzstein's mocking libretto was not without class-conscious implications, even his wiry-muscled music suggesting the notion voiced...
Lawrence regards this gift as one of his two luckiest '"breaks." The other was the fact that University of California's Gilbert Lewis was making heavy water, containing heavy hydrogen, soon after its discovery by Columbia's Urey. Lewis let Lawrence have generous samples and Lawrence was the first man to use the heavy hydrogen nuclei-deuterons-as atomic projectiles. They are more effective than protons, easier to handle than alpha particles...
...Awful Truth (Columbia). Resourceful, humorous Director Leo McCarey (Ruggles of Red Gap, The Milky Way, Make Way For Tomorrow) takes a couple of derby hats, an ingratiating wire-haired fox terrier and three players without any special reputations as comedians, and spins a brightly-written Vina Delmar script into the gayest screen comedy the season has seen. In the process he establishes Irene Dunne as one of the top comediennes of current cinema, keeps Columbia's reputation for mature comedy (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Theodora Goes Wild) at its brightest. He also...
After an absence of nine months in Northern Siam and British North Borneo, the Asiatic Primate Expedition, including members of the staff of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and the Peabody Museum at Harvard, as well as specialists from Columbia and Johns Hopkins, has recently returned to the United States with a comprehensive collection of Asiatic primate material...