Word: kern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suits are not ended was evident also in another quarter, Los Angeles, where the same group of angry Lazard Freres heirs is suing Banker Fleishhacker. the Anglo Bank and others for $1,250,000 damages from the sale in 1915-17 of the Lazard oil lands in Kern County, Calif. Banker Fleishhacker stoutly maintains that he was ill at the time and therefore had nothing to do with details of the sale except that he approved it. Asked on the stand if he had ever conspired to defraud Lazard Freres, Herbert Fleish-hacker declared: "Never in any manner, shape...
That is the keynote of Duke Ellington's attitude towards his work. He is deeply absorbed in it, much more involved in his life-work, music, than other musicians of his type. For his favorite writer is the late English composer, Delius, while he prefers Gershwin's and Kern's music among the popular melodies. Also, he has made an extensive study of American negro music, such as spirituals...
...getting plenty of bum, handmade music is the delighted conviction of many a pragmatic U. S. maker of musical instruments, for sales have risen sharply in the past two years. This week, in a book called A Little Night Music,* a plea was entered not for more Gershwin and Kern on home saxophones, but for more bum Brahms and Beethoven, played by groups of amateurs on their flutes, clarinets, fiddles, cellos. Its author is Gerald White Johnson, editorial writer of the Baltimore Sun, co-author of The Sunpapers of Baltimore. Though Author Johnson says he is dull...
...investigation of Herbert Fleishhacker's affairs. On the basis of this investigation, Lang and his lawyer, a heavy-shouldered Los Angelean named Harold Morton, in 1933 brought suit against both Herbert Fleishhacker and the Anglo Bank in connection with the sale in 1915-17 of oil lands in Kern County, Calif, which belonged to the Lazards. The suit asked damages of over $1,000,000, has lain dormant ever since...
...Iturbi understood, or so he said later, that during that half he would lead the orchestra. When he arrived at the Dell, however, Iturbi found that Singers Peerce and Monroe were about to go on the air with songs by Gershwin, Victor Herbert, Oley Speaks, Jerome Kern. Frank La Forge, Daniel Wolf, Coleridge Taylor. Conductor Iturbi was not expected to accompany these songs and singers, but his emotional temperature began rising rapidly. He heard Mr. Peerce through two numbers, then strode upon the Dell stage, and began gesticulating at a radio announcer...