Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire was mutton-chop-whiskered Jacques Offenbach. Stuffy politicians, high-toned artists, bombastic literati winced at his satirical songs. All Paris, from the Empress Eugénie to the trollops of the Quartier Latin gobbled up his tunes as fast as they came. He wrote nearly 100 operettas, which drew delighted applause in every pleasure-loving city from St. Petersburg to New Orleans...
...stocky, bald-headed Spaniard named Pablo Casals. The aging Casals has not played in the U. S. for nearly a decade. Three years ago, when Austrian-born Cellist Emanuel Feuermann made his Manhattan debut, he set the cello fans' heads to wagging. Short, roundheaded Feuermann not only drew a powerful, well-modulated tone from his recalcitrant instrument, he could play it with a rippling facility that put most violinists to shame. Last week Cellist Feuermann finished the most ambitious cellistic venture ever witnessed in Manhattan concert halls. In a cycle of four concerts with the National Orchestral Association...
...such talented Russians as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff and Tykon Krennikov . Conductor Goossens' entry for the honor was the Symphony in G Minor of reticent, little-known British Composer Ernest John Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran's opus drew pleased applause but no hosannas. Conductor Goossens' pronouncement has been only a cackle. But if Composer Moeran's symphony turned out to be less than a golden egg it was nevertheless a true symphony, meaty, fresh, symmetrical...
Died. Dr. Paul Martin Pearson. 66, first U. S. civil Governor of the Virgin Islands (1931-35) and father of Drew Pearson, Washington newspaper columnist; of cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco. Calif. At his request his ashes will be scattered in the Caribbean near the Virgin Islands...
...date set for resumption of publication drew near, the Digest's angel still hovered uncertainly in the offing. So President Havell extended the suspension for two weeks more. Hopefully, a test letter to 10,000 subscribers pleaded: "Literary Digest is not just another magazine; it is an American Institution of major importance. It cannot be allowed to die. . . . We ask you to put a dollar in the enclosed return envelope. . . . Your dollar will be credited to your subscription as an increase in rate...