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Young Eugene Ormandy walked briskly into the Philadelphia limelight last week, hopped onto the Stokowski throne and in a determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Season's Overture | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

"The Devil's A Sissy" at Loew's State is proof conclusive that the movies have gone a long way since Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy." The same jolly hoodlumism and almost the same human interest variety of pathos still hold the fort, but "The Devil's A...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT LOEW'S STATE and ORPHEUM | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Last July 15, the Giants were in fifth place, nearer sixth than fourth. They won 33 of their next 38 games to take the league lead, grimly held onto it through the late summer stretch while the Cubs and Cardinals helped put each other out of the race. All told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Equinoctial Climax | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Help Wanted. On his way to the convention, A. B. A. President Robert Vedder Fleming of Washington's Riggs Bank had stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers at San Francisco | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Mr. George S. Kaufman, in collaboration this time with Miss Katharine Dayton, has proved himself something of a doctrinaire in "First Lady". The requirement, of course, was that the doctrine be silly enough to stir up amusement, if not enthusiasm, in American audiences. American audiences haven't pledged themselves, and...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 9/30/1936 | See Source »

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