Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lonely Jim Landis (he was divorced three months ago) packed his bag and went off to Florida. At 48 he was entering private business for the first time. His new boss: Capitalist Joseph P. Kennedy, another early favorite of Franklin Roosevelt...
...heroine to the stake, then let her mind wander through agonizing flashbacks: memories of the coarse yells of the mob, a howling dog, rolling drums. Standout scene: Joan's trial. Claudel and Honegger make her judges animals, with Porcus, a pig, presiding. Porcus (dramatically sung by Tenor Joseph Laderoute) screams his charges and denunciations, and the chorus howls "Hérétique! . . . Sorcière!" Joan finally dies in a flaming burst of music from chorus and orchestra. After a stunned pause, the audience demanded ten curtain calls of cast and conductor...
Violinist Joseph Szigeti was jubilant over the manuscript that had come to him from Soviet Russia. Said he: "When Prokofiev was the very bad boy of music, I pioneered for him, and he has never forgotten." Twenty-three years ago in Prague it was Szigeti who had started Prokofiev's masterful Violin Concerto No. 1 on its way to fame. Last week in San Francisco, Szigeti bowed and plucked his way through the U.S. première of Prokofiev's new Sonata...
...first really profitable year, 1946, his income was $220,000, of which he kept $46,000. He recently bought a $50,000 house in the Thomas Mann-Joseph Cotten neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, and is putting whatever money he can salvage into a heavy annuity program...
...uniformed policemen stood outside the Oxford Grill and fire trucks were summoned to put out the smoke shell screen used by the felons. Curious at the speady start of the bandit car on Church Street, one, Patrolman Joseph Gould, took down the license number "for the hell...