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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Ives's Second Pianoforte Sonata, almost entirely neglected since he completed it in 1915, got its first Manhattan performance at a recital by enterprising U. S. Pianist John Kirkpatrick. Composer Ives's long-unheard work turned out to be a sort of musical equivalent to Author Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp...
Last week the men who are putting the Hearst publishing empire in order got around to Mr. Hearst's magazines. Quietly knocked on the head was 39-year-old Pictorial Review, which only a year and a half ago boasted a circulation of more than 3,000,000, bigger than any other women's monthly...
Publisher Hearst took it over from its printer and paper company in 1934, in a deal which presumably permitted him to ignore its back debts unless it made money. In 1937 he got Butterick Co.'s 68-year-old Delineator the same way, rolled the two magazines into one. But admen last year bought only slightly more than two-thirds as much Pictorial lineage...
...Ruppert, multimillionaire brewer, bachelor, owner of the World Champion New York Yankees. It disclosed that he had left all but $150,000 of his $40,000,000 fortune amassed in beer, baseball and real estate in trust for three women. Nieces Helen Silleck Holleran and Ruth Silleck Maguire each got one-third of the estate. To onetime bit-playing Actress Helen Winthrope Weyant, 37, "a very old friend," went the other third, and $300,000 in cash. To make sure that the Yankees would be maintained in the style to which they were accustomed, Colonel Ruppert stipulated that the estate...
...When he got back to the East he went to Vermont, got a job acting in a summer camp, followed it by a bit part in a road company. A meeting with Clifford Odets led to better parts in Group Theatre productions, the leading role in Having Wonderful Time, a part in Golden Boy, which got him his Hollywood contract...