Word: faddism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double-entendres that will eventually find their way to the cutting-room floor. Wrapped in complicated shuttles between heaven and hell, past and present, the play, according to one member of the east who ventured to take a flyer on an explanation, is one great satire; on faddism, on reincarnation, and on satire itself. The main characters are placed, as usual, at the three points of the triangle, and they, with the rest of the cast, are flashed back and forth by the sorcery of one Hector Rigoletto, to their counterparts in the past...
...recent faddism over self-taught (modern "primitive") painters has not spoiled thin, bespectacled Fred Papsdorf.He has had modest success and has gotten museum ranking after only six years of serious oil painting. But he still reminds art circles of the late, great, triumphantly simple Pittsburgh "primitive," John Kane...
...prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...