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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moral sermon in order to get a confessional letter into print. Sample from his "Advice from the Scandal Club" column: "Gentlemen ... I desire your advice in the following Case. I am something in Years, yet have a great Affection for my Neighbour's Wife, and she no less for me; her Husband is sensible of it, but seems indifferent, so that nothing but a few Scruples of Conscience bars my way to Enjoyment; which if you can remove, it shall be acknowledg'd by, Gentlemen, Your Humble Servant. . . .'' Defoe's advice: Stay home and mind...
...finished his eighth symphony (in his boulder-like head; it is not yet completely written down). From Brahms's massive skull came four symphonies, from Tchaikovsky's high crown six, from Beethoven's shaggy pate nine. Mozart's wonderfully broad forehead gave out no less than 41. But when tough old Joseph ("Papa'') Haydn sat down at the age of 72 to catalogue his works, he could shake his egg-shaped head till it nearly cracked, but he could not for the life of him remember all those nice symphonies he had written. Their...
...sing. Last week it looked as though music-lovers in provincial Washington, D.C. might be denied this privilege. Reason: Washington's only large concert auditorium, Constitution Hall, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are so proud they won't eat mush-much less let a Negro sing from their stage...
...other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...
...Last week a research committee, jointly sponsored by CBS and NBC, made public a report which gave a partial answer on how well radio was doing its job interesting and selling the farmer. The committee's researchers conducted 20,362 personal interviews on farms and in communities of less than 2,500 population in 96 sample counties scattered throughout the 48 States. What they found out, they consider a fairly accurate slant on the radio habits of the nation's 9,470,000 rural radio families...