Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor own only their company names for Shaw's choruses. When they want a chorus of 40 to record the Bach B Minor Mass (Victor) or 30 voices for broadcast of Beethoven's Mass, they go to Shaw. He has a huge reservoir of singers-his cleanly trained, 185-voice Collegiate Chorale. Their recorded performances of Bach rank with the best in Europe. About the only time he gets all his 185 singers together is when the Chorale puts on its own concerts in Carnegie Hall or does Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Toscanini...
...never yet succeeded in damming that river, he has created, at moments in history, a few things so enduringly peaceful that they seem independent of its red flow. The monumental art created in the 15th Century's peculiar climate has stood through all kinds of historical weather. Today huge, and sometimes forbidding, art museums hang the treasures of the Renaissance on their walls, there to be seen by several million Americans who each year visit Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery in Washington. Thousands of Christmas cards, crisscrossing in the mail, carry reproductions of the 15th...
...powerful, primitive singing of its huge (203 voices) Echoes of Eden choir had been bringing in new members to Los Angeles' stuccoed St. Paul Baptist Church at the rate of 18 a day. It now takes five cops to control Sunday crowds that jam the street out in front to listen over a loudspeaker (and six nurses inside for worshipers who get too wrought-up). The choir's weekly radio program is broadcast to 17 states. Two months ago Capitol Records began putting the choir...
Inspected feature by feature, Actress Johnson is a plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...
...beef sold this year should gross between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000. (The ranch sells virtually all its cattle to Swift & Co. to keep from driving down prices by open sales.) Sales of breeding bulls bring in another $150,000 or so. But the expenses are huge, too. Real estate taxes run around $200,000, gasoline and oil take $48,000, land-clearing $120,000. The payroll for the 500 employees is over $400,000. At best guess, the ranch this year should net over $1,000,000 before income taxes...