Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week alert listeners at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert noticed that in the Bach Toccata and Fuge the basses had a new, if perhaps unneeded, sonority and strength. They had previously speculated about a strange black cabinet which stood in the orchestra. A few of the curious investigated afterward, discovered that the cabinet was a variety of the Theremin ether-wave instrument (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928, et seq.) being used as a regular, recognized member of the orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin...
...clock." Five minutes later newsmen, looking across the White House lawn, observed a strange movement out on Pennsylvania Avenue. They hurried out to find 35 very young men and women and one big Negro marching solemnly up and down under the leafless trees. Behind them flocked a curious crowd. With difficulty their youthful hands held aloft heavy placards...
...most illuminating conclusion to be drawn from the report of the I. C. A. A. A. A. on the mortality of Harvard athletes resulting from their years of organized sports during the period 1870 to 1905 is the curious parallelism with which intelligent supervision of University athletics has kept pace with the decreasing death rate. While Harvard, compared with other colleges, has an extremely high mortality for the thirty-five years during which statistics were available, the important point is the rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn...
When Nikolai Sokoloff conducts his Cleveland Orchestra in its annual Manhattan concert, he usually attracts attention by performing unusual music. In last week's concert Conductor Sokoloff seemed more than ever an apostle of the curious. Following Chabrier's Marche Joyenuse, he presented d'Indy's seldom-heard Jour d'Eté la Montagne, then three Manhattan premières-First Airphonic Suite for RCA Theremin* and Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner...
Curtiss-Wright Sales Co. gave a flying party last week for air-curious business leaders of the New York area who had never had a ride in an airplane. At Valley Stream, L. I., hummed expectantly the Company's Ford trimotor. In squads it engulfed intrepid New York businessmen -rubbermen, pianomen, bankers, food-men, hatters, bakers, milkmen, silkmen- took them up, showed them over Manhattan, brought them down, five tons landing softly...