Word: grof
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week drew a crowd unaccustomed to entering Manhattan's most formal music house. Theatre folk, songwriters and newspapermen flocked to hear tabloid Paul Whiteman (126 Ib. thinner than he used to be) play Tabloid. It had been written for him by his oldtime orchestrator, squat, baldish Ferde Grofé who now runs the Grofé Realty Co. in Teaneck...
...indeed seems that an obscure band called "Paul Whitman Orch," have made something very marvelous and quite terrific. Two twelve inch records carry the four parts of METROPOLIS. Some details: By Ferdie Grof and Rube Bloom. Composers at the pianos. Cynical-blue-tragic-droll. Part three most interesting. Vocal work like unto nothing I have ever before heard in all my life...
Apponyi Albert Grof (which is the Hungarian way of saying Count Albert Apponyi) has been a life-long monarchist. Born in 1846, two years before the famed Kossuth revolution, he was closely identified with the liberal Kossuth and Deak parties, although his policies while in office were not always liberal according to Anglo-Saxon standards. And throughout his 55 years of public service he has upheld the monarchical principle and latterly the Habsburg dynasty...