Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counsellor-at-Law (by Elmer Rice; produced by John Golden) brings Paul Muni back to Broadway in the role that eleven years ago made him famous. He is still good in the role, and the play's high-grade hokum is still happily uncontaminated by anything the least bit genuine...
...drive has no such euphonious name as the "Lowell Mole Patrol." "But Prune Face is the most sensational character since the Mile was put away," they insist. They best they've thought of is "Make a Plum of Prune Face." In any case, they think they've found the golden apple, and Dick Tracy will make everything peachy...
When the Liberty ship James Otis made her trial run off San Francisco's Golden Gate last February, broad-shouldered, 6-ft.-5 Charles E. Moore was in her engine room. His newly acquired Joshua Hendy Iron Works had built the two-story-high, 271,000-lb. reciprocating engine, and Moore was aboard to see how it performed. At the end of the trip he beamed, said: "When it's neither too tight to smell nor too loose to hear, then you can bet a ball of wax it's a damn fine engine...
...generals. Sherman, on the other hand, an advocate of terror, Fuller admires-though he says that the march through Georgia and the Carolinas was of little military use. Except for Grant, U.S. military leaders have not had enough appreciation of the importance of speed, and lost many a golden opportunity by dawdling. Most horrible example: the pious Jackson, who stopped for devotions on the Sabbath...
16th and 17th century music start off the program. Choral writing got under way before orchestral, and these centuries were more or less its golden age. I am told that "Nymphe and Shepherds" of Purcell was written for a play called the "Libertine," a fact not mentioned on the program but given here for what it is worth. Following are two religious pieces of the 17th century, "Confitemini Domino" by Constantini and a setting for chorus of the 134th psalm by Bach's contemporary, Sweelink. The 18th century is represented by a beautiful chorus from Gluck's "Orpheus...