Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symphonies have co-conductors. Back to work from his summer home in Sanbornville, N.H. last week went one of the Philadelphia orchestra's co-conductors, blond-haired, Budapest-born Eugene Ormandy. Mr. Ormandy had spent a diligent summer, working over programs, boning up on the violin, his first love, with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz...
...proprietor (Pat O'Brien) by his hysterical efforts to hire a satisfactory orchestra, it reaches its comic peak when he makes his pressagent (Margaret Lindsay) believe he is dying in order to persuade the bandleader hero (John Payne) to renew his contract. Best song: Love Is Where You Find...
...Samuel Pepys know the intimate scenes that pop out so unexpectedly among the humdrum entries on office work and financial difficulties- such passages as Pepys's account of his shamefaced spying on his wife Elizabeth when he thought she was too friendly with her dancing teacher, his love affair with Mrs. Bagwell after he had got her husband a job, with pert Betty after he had married her off to simple Mr. Martin, his adventures with Doll Lane, Jane Welsh, Elizabeth Whittle, Frances Tooker, and various maids who were briefly employed in the Pepys household. But not so many...
Since the death last year of Dexter Fellows, circus pressagent extraordinary and perennial, the literature of the circus has seemed as subdued as mourning. With Big Show, the first novel of a circus-loving staff member of The New Yorker, the circus goes to town in bigger & better literary spangles than ever. A three-ring romance presenting a tender love story, an engaging dog story and authentic circus life, Big Show shares with Dexter Fellows' ballyhoo the distinction of being frequently livelier than the circus itself...
...beautiful, vainglorious Tory adulteress, Morganna Bale, wife of a middleaged, good-natured Continental general. In the last year of the Revolution, when the story begins, Morganna acquires two worshipful protégés, a pretty farm girl and a handsome British deserter. When she falls in love with the deserter, he takes fright at her reckless passion, tries to escape. Promptly retrieved, he resists no further. Two months later, the war ended, he is so hypnotized that he agrees to murder the returning general. By a rather far-fetched accident, the general technically commits suicide, but under circumstances which...