Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter & summer when he plays the piano, claims that as his fingers perspire they become increasingly agile. Last week in Manhattan he set out to prove his freak point, challenged anyone to play faster than he through his own Jam on the Piano, then through Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Runner-up on the Jam piece was one Marjorie Otis, weeded from a week's preliminary tryouts. While newsreels clicked, Miss Otis played some 500 notes while Scott, in his mittens, played...
Famed always as a fast pianist was Ignace Jan Paderewski, a challenger to Scott last week only in his Duo-Art recordings. In the fastest section of the Hungarian Rhapsody, Paderewski plays 156 notes in six seconds, or 26 notes per second. Scott managed to outspeed the great Pole by 1½ sec. Scott's all-time record is 44½ notes per second...
...Light Brigade than for the mystery it deepens as to why the U. S. cinema industry can wave the British flag so much more effectively than its own. In this case, the specific credit for so doing goes, in addition to its authors, to Irish Actor Errol Flynn, Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz and U. S. Producer Hal Wallis, for whom The Charge of the Light Brigade represents the $1,000,000 climax of the busiest executive year in Hollywood...
...second published novel, The Street of the Fishing Cat, Hungarian Author Jolanda Foldes won the $19,000 All-Nations Prize offered by U. S. & foreign publishers, a cinema corporation...
...Stokowski. Last winter King Stokowski decided that he wanted more time for "research," more personal freedom than a conductor's routine duties permit. Result was that the Philadelphia Orchestra authorities had to choose another conductor for the bulk of this season, picked Eugene Ormandy, 36, pale, small, blond Hungarian who for the past four years has been leader of the Minneapolis Symphony...