Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the annual duel and the "grand finale of wide and handsome shooting" as highlights, the pistol team will hold its last meeting of the year tonight at 8 o'clock in Memorial Hall...
Last week, four hours after Banker Bache, 75, had sailed to spend the summer in London with his daughter, wife of Theatrical Producer Gilbert Miller, Mr. Bache's lawyer summoned reporters, gave them news that within a year not only the Grand Duchess Marie but any other resident or visitor in Manhattan will be able to see Raphael's Giuliano de'Medici at almost any time. Banker Bache, for a quarter-century one of the most important art collectors in the U. S., was giving his entire collection to the public and turning over his home...
Mischa Mischakoff, 42, seems cut out for a concertmaster. He was such a fine violinist at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg that, after the Revolution, he won a professorship to the Government Conservatory. He was only 24 when the Moscow 'Grand Opera asked him to be its first violin. Two years later he lit out of Russia, went to Manhattan, placed first in a contest of 500 violinists and got a chance to solo with the Philharmonic. Walter Damrosch made Mischakoff concertmaster of the New York Symphony, now defunct. Stokowski took him to Philadelphia, whence Frederick Stock...
Turn Off The Moon (Paramount), first effort of cinema's only woman producer, Mrs. Fanchon Simon, was not planned in the grand manner. By all the gauges Hollywood uses to measure a picture's importance, such as cast names, expensive sets and the fame of writers and directors, it should have remained merely a modest little musical for double bills. By a rare cinematic accident, it successfully refutes its sales bracket. Its gags and tunes are good, its patter fast. Above all it has the unprefigured value which is generated in a musical when most of the participants...
...part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...