Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day in Washington handsome Bill Smathers gave cameramen a lensful of how the well-dressed Senator appears, in cutaway, in tails, sitting, standing, talking, smiling, brushing his hair. Newshawks curious about his political significance guessed that it might be easier to tell how he would vote by watching Boss Hague than by listening to his own utterances. Some recent Smatherisms...
Kimiko (Photographic Chemical Laboratories) is the first Japanese talking picture to be exhibited in the U. S. Shown last week at Manhattan's Filmarte Theatre, which specializes in importations, its net effect was to bore ordinary cinemaddicts, please amateurs of the curious and reassure Hollywood producers that Japan's prolific cinema industry is not a serious menace. Story of Kimiko concerns a domestic crisis in the up-to-date Yamamoto family. Thinking to arrange a reconciliation between her mother, Etsuko Yamamoto, with whom she lives, and her father, Shunsaku Yamamoto, who long ago ran off with a geisha...
...among the Chinese masses that strict censorship killed the story entirely out of all newsorgans controlled by the Nanking Government, and it was forbidden even to print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week is the same Mr. Lin who in his youth had a job in the Imperial Manchu Government, is today a Red best fitted to do Emperor-homage in the way in which Chinese prefer in their hearts to do almost...
...festival lasted three days, of which one whole morning was devoted to Hindemith's less complicated works, with the composer on the viola. People were impressed by the assurance with which the flabby, sad-eyed man played his Sonata for Viola Alone, his curious indifference to tonal qualities. Later they had a chance to hear Hindemith's Der Schwanendreher (The Organgrinder) which had never been played in the U. S. before. Der Schwanendreher is a concerto for viola and small orchestra, based on traditional German folk tunes. In it Hindemith expanded a song called Among Hills and Valleys...
Last week the curious fortunes of Apollos Smith and his son came to a curious end as Son Phelps' will was probated in the courtroom at Malone. With the exception of a $100,000 trust fund for several servants and relatives, Phelps Smith's $10,000,000 estate will go to establish a "corporation ... to be known as Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences . . . to be located upon the shores of St. Regis Lake if practicable . . . for the higher education of boys and girls." To keep out undesirable neighbors, Phelps Smith also provided for the formation...