Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Profession. His first play. Brewster's Millions, earned $1,000,000. Lightnin', written in 1918 in collaboration with Frank Bacon, ran for three years in Manhattan. In 1919 he retired, sold his interests to Producer John Golden. Three years ago he emerged from retirement to direct The Vinegar Tree...
...tough for the Princeton riders. Princeton has more power than finesse; while Harvard depends on smoothness, a factor which stood her in such good stead during the arduous fight last winter for the Massachusetts Indoor Crown. It is interesting to note that this quality of the team stands in direct contrast to the characteristic power which is the main hope for a Crimson crew victory in the Thames classic this evening...
...Liss had to leave the stage several times. But even the smallest players had learned enough about music to read notes with a fair degree of accuracy, to beat good time when their turns came to climb up on a grown-up chair, bow vigorously, tap for attention and direct the others. Karl Moldrem, the man who , founded and patiently trained the New York Baby Orchestra, appeared on the stage to help the children tune their violins, to remind each of the young conductors that they were to wave their arms in three-four or four-four time. Beyond that...
...autumn, Europe's leading conductors cross the Atlantic to direct U. S. symphony orchestras through the formal winter concert season. In the summer, U. S. jazz bands go to Europe to demonstrate in music halls and night clubs their country's one & only original contribution to music. Europe in the past few summers has heard smooth, suave jazz played by Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallèe, Guy Lombardo. It has also heard Negro syncopators who scorn sweet stereotype melodies and easy orthodox rhythms. But this summer Europeans will have a chance to hear hot, pulsing jazz played...
...understood, will ask for the unification of all the railroads of the nation into two competitive systems. Although he is not expected to name any two specific roads, it is believed that the logical two will be the Pennsylvania and The New York Central. This is a direct departure from the Interstate Commerce Commission's plan of last year whereby the Eastern roads would be combined into four competing systems...