Word: halls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first trip back to Moscow since the war, Paul Robeson (see U.S. AFFAIRS) was a howling success. "You know how I feel to be back on Soviet soil," he told a cheering audience in Tchaikovsky Hall. He sang in English, French, Spanish and Russian, and tried out his own version of some of the words in Ol' Man River ("We must fight to death for peace and freedom"). He also introduced to the Russians an old favorite called Scandalize My Name, and dedicated it to the "socalled free Western press." The comrades loved every minute...
...been playing Bach on the harpsichord in public for 46 years: the great Hungarian conductor, Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922) had long ago punningly tagged her "The Bachante." And she had performed all of Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier last year in a series of Town Hall recitals to which her worshipful disciples-musicians, students and teachers alike-had flocked, music in hand. Some were occasionally surprised at her interpretations; Bach himself gave few hints of exactly how fast and how loud his music should be played. But few had failed to be impressed with her magnificent authority...
Singular Cases. To Editor Hall, it is elementary that intelligent people all over the world are mystery-story fans, and that many serious writers have a secret hankering to try their hands at mystery fiction. In the neat, literate first issue of his magazine, Hall has brought the intelligent readers and writers together...
From now on, all letters to 221B will "be delivered to 32-year-old Editor Michael Hall of the London Mystery Magazine. An ex-reporter on the Manchester Guardian and a British army veteran, Hall got the idea for his magazine one day when he was strolling along Baker Street. The post office agreed to recognize the mythical 221B as a real address and assign it to the magazine, although Hall and his staff of four have had to set up temporary offices two miles away on Lower Belgrave Street...
...helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. Said Editor Hall: "We want to produce the Rolls-Royce of detective magazines...