Word: intermezzos
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...local fare were satisfying; Holst's "Suite for Band" gave Holmes a chance to show the individual excellence of his players, as tubas, trombones, trumpets and horns in turn carried the theme of the first movement, while the sole trumpet of Robert Hermann stood out brilliantly in the restrained Intermezzo which gave way to full volume and brilliance for the final March. Hermann showed his excellent tone and tongue control in threading his way through the delicate phrasing of Morton Gould's "Pavanne...
...pictures, twice as many as last year. Moviegoers are already seeing, or will see, Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford in The Women (1939), Walter Pidgeon in How Green Was My Valley (1941), Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart in Destry Rides Again (1939), Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard in Intermezzo (1939) and Paul Muni in Scarface...
...elections, a quip was heard around the polls: "Nobody who owns a watch is Communist in Austria." When the returns were in, the Communists had managed to roll up only 5% of the country's vote (the Volkspartei polled some 50%, the Socialists some 45%). From their brief intermezzo of glory under Russia's exclusive occupation, they retained only one dull portfolio (Power & Electricity) and three seats in Parliament...
...that time, however, one of the cagiest men in one of the cooniest communities in the U.S. had seen Miss Bergman's Intermezzo. He usually got what he was after; and he was determined to get her. While calm Miss Bergman sat in Stockholm flicking off her wrist offers which nearly every actress in Europe would have rolled over and begged for, she reckoned without David O. Selznick. In that failure of reckoning began a sort of duel, and a sort of wooing, as rare in Hollywood as victorious talent...
Lift Every Voice's rolling phrases and solemn, striding music (hintful of the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana) are not new. They were whipped out in 1900 by two Negroes for a Lincoln's Birthday celebration of Negro schoolchildren in Jacksonville. Author is the late James Weldon Johnson, writer, lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon...