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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When NBC officials threatened recently to deprive sardonic Composer Deems Taylor of his free tickets to the broadcast, on the ground that he "didn't like Toscanini anyway," he blasphemously cracked: "I admit Toscanini was at the Last Supper, but I insist that he did not sit at the head of the table...
...jitterbugs in ¾ time ruled two men with more power than the Emperor himself. They did not make Vienna's laws, but they wrote its waltzes. These two men were Johann Strauss, father & son, subjects of a joint biography (Johann Strauss, Father and Son - Greystone Press; $3.25) published last week by Viennese Exile H. E. Jacob...
...recording companies have been too busy improving the fidelity of discs to worry about film. But last fortnight London's Society for Cultural Relations with the U. S. S. R. showed Londoners that the Soviet Government had been pioneering in film records. At the Academy Movie Theatre 5,000 feet of Soviet musical film were unreeled, reproducing Shostakovich's entire Fifth Symphony, a Song of Jubilation by 40-year-old Soviet Composer Alexander Veprik, a scattering of shorter compositions...
Depression I finally knocked the props from under Mr. Eaton, washed away his industrial controls. By 1932 he was left with little except his Cleveland securities house, Otis & Co. But Mr. Eaton still rode to hounds. And last week he rode off again to the financial wars...
...last week the Eaton-Norris army had slowed its firing, and Mr. Willkie's patience had been exhausted. To the Sunday papers he sent a statement...