Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week a real captain of a real ship was heard on the subject. Near Westport, Wash., a bottled note cast overboard in mid-Pacific last July was washed ashore. It was written by Captain W. J. Fowler, then first officer of Oceanic & Oriental Navigation Co.'s Golden Horn which had just been through 18 days of rough weather...
...British Composer Ernest John Moeran. Premiered before a stuffy audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Moeran's opus drew pleased applause but no hosannas. Conductor Goossens' pronouncement has been only a cackle. But if Composer Moeran's symphony turned out to be less than a golden egg it was nevertheless a true symphony, meaty, fresh, symmetrical...
...darkness. It was when shouting ragamuffins go roller skating up the street, and older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press in, when a roommate borrows the car to go to Wellesley, when the debutantes read poetry, when the moon is a soft, golden cartwheel...
...Girl of the Golden West (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plasters opulent prettiness, vociferous songs and an assortment of plot cliches all over David Belasco's ancient yarn about the mad, bad days in early California. Walter Pidgeon, sheriff of Cloudy Mountain, and Bandit Chief Nelson Eddy are rivals for Jeanette MacDonald, pastel-tinted proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Eddy's dimples, wavy hair and roly-poly pinkness satisfy the popular idea of a rakehell bad man about as well as they did that of a West Point football player in Rosalie. Miss MacDonald's concession to her role...
Mexico is backward and primitive, but Mexican Chavez is the most futuristically minded of contemporary musicians. He has a firm faith that the development of electrically controlled instruments will bring about a musical golden age. In a recent book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...