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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-even Soprano Alda-aped Basso Segurola by wearing monocles.When Segurola put on his top hat, he was showered with white dust: Caruso had thoughtfully poured flour into it. Baritone Scotti squirted seltzer water in Alda's face. Instead of nibbling at stage fare in the cafe scene of Act II, they sat down with relish to a chicken dinner-and more champagne -ordered in from an Italian restaurant...
Bartok: Quartet No. 3 (New Music String Quartet; Bartok Recording Studios, 1 side, LP). Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet once described the late great Bela Bartok as "one who searches groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling." Composed in 1927, his Quartet No. 3 is crammed with rhythmic and harmonic search, and a few groans and smiles too. With this excellent recording, made by the composer's son Peter, 25, all six Bartok quartets are now on wax. Performance: good...
...their early editions, the New York Mirror, the Des Moines Register and the Chicago Tribune even rated a love bomb over the atom bomb, put their banners on the story of a man charged with engineering an airplane explosion to kill his wife (see THE HEMISPHERE). The Trib also smugly reminded readers that Colonel McCormick was already building a bombshelter for himself and his staffers. The New York Daily News wrote the day's most heartfelt headline, a prayerful play on words: U.S. HAS SUPREMACY, WILL HOLD IT : AMEN. The Communist Worker combined propaganda, craftsmanship and a sly smile...
...identified by race; whites . . . are not . . . Hardly ever does 'Mr.,' 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' precede the name of a Negro in the regular news columns . . . To refer to the widow of a lynched Negro as 'the Mallard woman' . . . is to deny her even the elemental dignity of grief . . . The Negro [in stories and pictures] is either presented as a menace, or he is ridiculed, patronized or applauded backhandedly...
...birth in a railroad worker's family in Savanna, Ill., King solemnly says the obvious: "I'm kind of like a Horatio Alger story." King's story includes stretches as newsboy, railway worker, insurance salesman and clarinetist. In 1927 he brought his romantic profile and even more romantic rhythms into Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, and built up a devoted radio audience when he was sponsored by Lady Esther cosmetics. As a radio fixture, he has piled up more than 10,000 programs...