Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest, almost the fastest land transport plane in the U. S. It has a wingspan of 138 ft. 3 in., overall length of 97 ft. Nearly three times as heavy as the familiar DC-3, which is at present the favorite transport of all U. S. airlines, DC-4 will carry 42 passengers as a day plane, 30 passengers as a sleeper. Its top speed will be 240 m.p.h. Its 32½ tons will hurtle through the air a full mile in 15 seconds...
...architecture ever displayed, an important collection of photographs, and an exhibition of stills and reels illustrating the development of the cinema, a U. S. art if there ever was one. Frenchmen, who first discovered esthetic importance in U. S. films, will find the Keystone Cops the most familiar part of the show...
During the past year this big man and his small Sealyham, Deacon, have become familiar visitors to art dealers, art galleries, museums and artists throughout the U. S. In preparing the Paris show, the Museum's scholarly, sensitive Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. merely advised; Mr. Goodyear did the picking. After last autumn's fiasco, he did a businesslike job. The 80 living artists represented include most of the well-known names in U. S. art. But they also include a discreet number of young or obscure artists whose merit is known...
Last week fashionable Londoners gathered at their Royal Opera House to witness the most pretentious annual event of London's musical life: the opening of the spring opera season (seven weeks) at Covent Garden. As in past seasons, the roster of singers included several names familiar to audiences at Manhattan's Metropolitan, among them Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg and Lauritz Melchior. Season's repertory, as at the Metropolitan, showed a distinct accent on German opera, with two complete cycles of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen as its main feature. Whipping performances into shape were a staff...
...blotting-paper (anti-rustle) programs distributed in Radio City's Studio 8 H for last week's Manhattan broadcast by the NBC Symphony sported the names of four U. S. composers.. To concertgoers the most familiar was that of pasty-faced Emerson Whithorne, onetime music-critic and husband of Pianist Ethel Leginska. Whithorne's new Sierra Morena, premiered by walrus-mustached Pierre Monteux, consisted of Spanish folk-idioms with impressionistic gravy. The -gravy lacked the smoothness of Ravel's, the piquancy of Manuel de Falla's, tasted a little like both...