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...RUTH IVOR New York City...
...good accompanists seem to share Moore's enthusiasm, documented wittily if somewhat defensively in his 1944 book, The Unashamed Accompanist. England's Ivor Newton explains his passion for accompanying as resulting from "a phobia about being alone." Italy's Giorgio Favoretto is less interested in togetherness than in "uniting the arts of poetry and music," while France's Janopoulo confesses to lacking the "special soul and the kind of conviction that passes across the footlights." Whatever its appeal, accompanying has attracted first-rate pianists, among them the U.S.'s Paul Ulanowsky and Franz Rupp, England...
This problem noted by Shaw is one of the bases of Pudovkin's discussion of acting for films, in Film Technique and Film Acting. Translated and edited by Ivor Montagu, the volume reprints the two classic works of the great Russian director. (I am baffled and irritated by Grove's billing of this as an "Evergreen Original": precisely this volume was published two years ago in London; Pudovkin on technique was first published in England many years ago. It is all the more surprising to see this misrepresentation as Grove is a reputable publisher.) To return to Shaw's observation...
Mister McKinley, he ain't done no wrong But Sholgosh he shot him with an Ivor-Johnson gun For to lay him down boys, to lay him down...
...strength of the Morgan contact, Clark branched out. made his first million in the '20s. In 1929 he founded his present firm, Ivor B. Clark Inc., and rode out the Depression comfortably by finding money for needy Wall Street investors to whom banks refused to lend a dime. Among his financial sources: Eccentric Millionheiress Hetty Green, who collected as much as 10% interest...