Word: formal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinemaddicts remember Maedchen in Uniform as one of the distinguished German productions of 1932, a delicately realistic picture of life in a girls' boarding school. In book form it became The Child Manuela, was Christa Winsloe's first novel. Though not a formal sequel, Girl Alone is a further chronicle of maidenly adventure. Baroness Hatvany (Christa Winsloe's married name) is a prize-winning European sculptress as well as a writer, and this tale of regretful nubility in pre-War Munich bears many an earmark of first-hand experience...
...hearing in Boston. Mahler, late nineteenth and early twentieth century symphonist of strong dramatic tendencies, has been called a giant of composition by his champion, the Bruckner Society. The other side of the question has been opened by Lazare Saminsky, who describes Mahler's "trumpeting through immense formal structures" as merely aggravating "their queer hollowiness." The mass of opinion favors Saminsky, but it is interesting to hear and judge the symphony anew, especially after having received large doses of the works of his contemporary, Richard Strauss...
Father Giannini gave his son & heir a thorough grooming for the job he now holds, starting him as a clearing clerk in 1918, marching him from department to department. With no formal college education, Son Mario studied law on the side, earned a degree from Hastings College in 1920. Lame, often ill, he works into the early morning hours at his modest home in Hillsborough about 20 miles from his office. Sometimes he asks businessmen to come out in the morning so that he can talk to them on the way into town. His chauffeur drives his Cadillac...
...some schooling, her father bound her out to a Minneapolis family. Great was the sensation when in later years the head of that household refused to pay for a ticket to hear a person sing who had been a "servant" in his family. In Minneapolis Fremstad gave her first formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where the late Frederick Bristol gave her lessons in return for which she played the accompaniments for all his other pupils. As a soloist at St. Patrick's Cathedral she made enough to go to Europe, where she studied with Lilli Lehmann...
...Hewitt trust fund is administered, it was revealed that Mother Hewitt had asked for a nine-month extension of time to account for some $400,000 of Ann's share of the income which she had received as her daughter's guardian during her minority. In her formal complaint Daughter Hewitt charged that her mother had squandered that money in gambling and high living at Deauville, Monte Carlo, Villa d'Este, Agua Caliente. She further charged that her mother had deprived her of an education, dressed her poorly, kept her confined, continually abused her. "She never...