Word: gracious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cellists of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra sat and smiled. An angular gentleman in an ill-fitting dress suit, Wilhelm Furtwangler by name, who had just completed his farewell concert as guest conductor, was asking them to get up, to bow as he himself was bowing in gracious acknowledgment of the battering applause that assaulted his ears. But the cellists smiled at him; they beat with their right hands upon the claret-colored wood of their big fiddles to show that they, too, admired as much as the assembly which now, through the clapping, had begun to shout his name...
...Sweet were the strains they heard, filled with all the dreaming melancholy, the tender elegance, of another day. Yet they were glad when Conductor Stock led something else. For sentiment cannot long garble truth; the viol, the violin, the pianoforte are all superior to the harp; nor can that gracious instrument any longer move men as it could long ago when jongleurs played, by candlelight and firelight, in shadowy halls...
...because New York is such a big city by any means, but because for some reason its audiences are the quickest to appreciate an actor's efforts, the quickest to rise to the occasion. Next to New York, Philadelphia runs a close second. Philadelphians are really very delightful and gracious, as far as plays are concerned at least...
Clare Kummer was summoned to set to music her engaging comedy, Good Gracious, Annabelle. This will be remembered as a feathery adventure of an original young lady and a fierce cave man whom she reformed. It was chiefly characterization, unexpected remarks and utter nonsense. Apparently its elusive, airy quality confused Mr. Ziegfeld. He added toward the last a thunderous episode in slapstick and a beautiful ballet. The slapstick was funny and the ballet was a bore. The early episodes in the unadulterated Kummer quality made the show attractively successful...
...mier, who has for many years been the director of Le Theatre National de I'Odéon of Paris, arrived in the U. S. to produce some of his famous plays. The invitation was not merely a courteous act toward M. Gémier, but a gracious recognition of France...