Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case involved a blonde, two deaths and "a certain foreign power." For the third time in 2½ years, an Ankara court last week tried to hand down an acceptable verdict in the famous Arcan murder. By now the court was fairly sure it knew who had committed the crime. The question remained...
...Ringling Brothers, a Scherzo á la Russe for Paul Whiteman, Ballet Scenes for Billy Rose, an Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his jazzband. Scherzo á la Russe was written to fit one side of a Whiteman record (says Stravinsky: "He played it very badly. He has a very famous name but he is a very bad musician...
...musician. They packed him off to the University of St. Petersburg to study law-but only after Igor got their permission to study harmony on the side. At the university, Igor made friends with Vladimir Rimsky-Korsakov, and showed his compositions to Vladimir's famous father ("Alas! The way he received some of my first attempts . . ."). From Rimsky an admiring Stravinsky learned the techniques of orchestration. Stravinsky sent his scores to Rimsky for criticism, including an orchestral fantasy called Fireworks, which he had written to celebrate the marriage of Rimsky's daughter Nadia (see cut). Fireworks came back...
...Stravinsky furnace burned out before World War I. It is not so fashionable to say that now: in recent years even some hostile critics concede that Stravinsky's fire is still burning. Says Composer Aaron Copland, who is not hostile: "All the other composers over 50 -the famous ones, I mean-are turning out more or less what is expected of them . . . Only Stravinsky [writes so] that no one can predict just where he will be taking us next...
...handled what it pretends to, she could probably have done herself proud; instead, she is required to sing such pseudo-bitter cabaret ersatz as Black Market. Miss Arthur used to have a nice knack for comedy; now & then it still clicks, but she leans more & more lazily on her famous woolly drawl and is forced, in this picture, into an embarrassing passage of whimsy involving a flustered retreat (from amorous John Lund) among filing cabinets, and a panicky recitation of Paul Revere's Ride. Millard Mitchell handles the smart cracks ably, but since the brightest and nastiest of them...