Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honegger, a young French Swiss. When Composer Honegger made his U. S. debut, last week, as conductor of his own works, his orchestra was Mr. Koussevitzky's. Turn about, one sage remarked in the lobby of the Cambridge Theatre, was fair play indeed in this case. Honegger won fame in the U. S. by the snorts and puffs of his giant locomotive. Fair enough, then, that Boston should see him first, hear his Rugby (TIME, Nov. 19) before he took it on an extended tour...
Pacific 231 won Honegger fame from Boston to California. It stimulates the vogue for putting all manner of mechanical sounds into music. Alone, and on first hearing, however, it failed to inspire any widespread confidence. People were becoming increasingly wary of modern composers. Repeated hearings of the Pacific were necessary to convince that it was more than freakish stuff. But for five years now it has endured, and since, substantiating it as ringing, vital music, there have been King David, Antigone, Judith, now Rugby...
Died. The Noble Earls of Howe and of Egmont, on the same day. Richard George Penn Curzon, 67, fourth Earl of Howe, was Hon. Treasurer of the Allied Forces in wartime, 1914-1915; descendant of General Howe of American Revolutionary fame; onetime Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria; and Lord Chamberlain tc Queen Alexandra. Charles John Perceval. 70, ninth Earl of Egmont, had been merchant mariner, mounted policeman in Natal, border customer in Zululand...
...course the fair companions of 1930 may raise complications. Some at the Union may find the assemblage of the elect too "representative" for their, happiness. And perhaps some in the Hall of Fame may be disappointed as usual with the great unwashed...
...vaudeville sketches, and that Playwright Eugene O'Neill's father, James O'Neill, acted in Zukor's first pictures. You learn how Ben Schulberg and Hiram Abrams. after the latter had been discharged by Zukor, organized United Artists; how Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, David Wark Griffith came to fame, how Zukor bought Paramount and parted from Mary Pickford and how the War, wiping out foreign competition, made the whole world a market...