Word: hullabalooers
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...noisy, patriotic hullabaloo is Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture. Depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, it ends with a mixture of the Marseillaise, the Imperial Russian anthem and - so reads the score - a terrific salvo of artillery fire. Although most orchestras dub in cymbals and timpani, the 1812 has sometimes been performed with real cannon. Last week in Philadelphia, Conductor Eugene Ormandy's decision to blitz the 1812 gave the Philadelphia Orchestra a cute little publicity story...
Like most books by working newspapermen, this one is better in detail than in structure. Authors Thompson & Raymond never develop their reference to a fact which would seem highly relevant to the present hullabaloo in Brooklyn: "The reduction of Tammany to the status of a borough organization in Manhattan, the borough of diminishing population, and . . . the rise of other and stronger bosses in Brooklyn and The Bronx. . . ." Their mobsters generally remain two-dimensional. One who comes terribly to life, however, is slug-faced Arthur Flegenheimer, who as "Dutch Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket...
Last fortnight Producer Jesse L. Lasky, with as much hullabaloo as if he had captured 132 Germans singlehanded, announced that he had captured Sergeant York. True, it was a little late. Ruddy, fat and 52, Sergeant York was no longer just the type to play a hero even when the hero was himself. Perhaps Gary Cooper or Gary Grant would do it. Be that as it may, Sergeant York, said Jesse Lasky, had agreed to come to Hollywood to work (with famed Author Gene Fowler) on a script for The Life of Sergeant York. The picture would cost some...
...census of the U. S. population every ten years is mandatory, is the basis of representation in Congress. Bystanders wondered whether the Congressional hullabaloo might have been caused by this possibility: that new census figures would result, in some States, in a reapportionment of Representatives...
...Champs-Elysées to see & hear a sensational new ballet. The ballet, put on by famed Russian Impresario Serge Diaghilev, was something to see: Diaghilev's idea of how primitive man got ritually excited, come springtime. The accompanying music, a boisterous, tom-tomming, banshee-wailing symphonic hullabaloo by Music's No. 1 Bad Boy, Igor Stravinsky, had even more oomph than the ballet...