Word: comments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the critical statement in Thursday morning's Music Box column concerning the concert of the Boston Symphony on Thursday is open to more comment than the one that, I have to make, I think it is important that I should make the following statement in order to justify Maestro Koussevitzky's choice of program, if justification is at all needed...
This incident and many another like it led even rival networks to pay tribute to "H. V." Kaltenborn last week. That he offered better comment on the crisis than any one else was because he also offered a better combination of talents. For one thing, he is German. His uncle, Lieut. General Hans von Kaltenborn-Stachen, was German War Minister for the years 1895-96. In Germany he himself is addressed as Baron. He knows German history and speaks the language (as well as French and Spanish) fluently. He knows news. He had 20 years' (1910-30) newspaper experience...
...without a commentator until Mutual's Publicist Lester Gottlieb called in a friend, Quincy Howe, who had rarely been heard over radio before. After a 15-minute audition of comment on fake news bulletins, Howe was hired and told to report at once. Little, loquacious, quick, Quincy Howe is the author of the satire England Expects Every American to Do His Duty. MBS was afraid he was too inexperienced, but after breezing through his first broadcast without a hitch, he remarked casually: "I was grateful that I got off on the nose...
...Bureau of Agricultural Engineering dispatched an investigator to look over the Wurtele harvester, would venture no comment whatever as to its practicability pending his report. If the machine should prove practical and come into widespread use, it would affect mainly the labor economy of Florida and Louisiana, which between them account for almost all the raw cane sugar (400,000 tons last year) raised in the U.S. proper...
Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford, author of Why Not Try God?, came out in favor of an international sit-down strike by women to prevent war,* added: "Of course, I know and you know that there is a Utopian weakness in such a scheme." Asked to comment on the international crisis, former Kaiser Wilhelm, who last week varied his daily routine by visiting an Egyptian exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, refused to discuss "anything less than 2,000 years old." At a stock sale in Belmont, Ohio, Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late President, and Republican candidate...