Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo last week, Cabinet Ministers scuttled in & out of Emperor Hirohito's moat-encircled palace. The assent of the Son of Heaven was required to dozens of decisions, most important of all to the drastic decision of the military high command to ship Japan's entire regular army -some 260,000 men-across the sea to China...
...which were judged by Composers Frederick Jacobi and Samuel Gardner, onetime Associate Conductor Modeste Alloo of the Cincinnati Symphony. Last week two movements of the prize-winning quintet were played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake Placid Club will be the scene of the first concert performance of his work, but Louis Gruenberg will not be there. The Club bars Jews not only as members...
...been a poor musician with an occasional patron. One of these was Mrs. Alma Morgenthau Wiener, sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully so far-on selling The Emperor Jones in Hollywood. To Composer Gruenberg and others like him, last week's Lake Placid award pointed up the fact that the radio, not only a channel but a frequent source for prize-money, may increasingly replace rich individuals as a patron of music...
...returning from a trip to Alaska, Owney trotted up the gangplank of the steamship Victoria, bound for Japan. There, the Emperor decorated him with a medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful...
...Gargantuan drinking bouts for which Japan is famous. His chief hobby is calligraphy; drawing intricate Chinese characters on rice paper with a camel's hair brush, a sport that requires great steadiness of hand. His fine Japanese hand had its work cut out fortnight ago when Emperor Hirohito called him in and handed him the problem of Shanghai...