Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters, scoundrels, in a mad stampede to stake out new homesteads. Before that day was done, horses had been shot, prairie fires were raging and men had been trampled to death...
...Take A Chance" Paramount and Fenway. A very poor reproduction of a good musical comedy. Also "The Mad Game" with Spencer Tracy...
...Boston and the Steinway and Knabe Piano Companies. But if it was impossible to prophesy what importance Schönberg would have as a teacher in the U.S., the reception given him as a composer testified to the fact that he is no longer regarded as terrifying or mad. Serge Koussevitzky has invited him to conduct his music with the Boston Symphony. The Pro-Arte quartet gave Schönberg concerts at Harvard and Yale last week and the students did not seem to mind. The New York League of Composers gave a concert and a reception which half...
...huge success. A handsome and unusually rowdy adaptation of the musicomedy that played in Manhattan last winter, Take a Chance repeats most of the sketches that were successful on the stage. Good new songs: It's Only a Paper Moon, I'm a Night Owl. The Mad Game (Fox) contains interesting data on professional kidnappers. They speak of their victims as "mental cases," incarcerate them in a suburban sanitarium, where the "resident physician" is the most sinister member of their band. Naturally the kidnappers in The Mad Game receive their just deserts. A kindly beer-baron (Spencer Tracy...
...Great Britain prepares "retaliation measures" against the "cheapest dollar in sixty years," Pollux and I are dismayed by the mad scramble of the Nations to give their worldly goods each to the other. The dollar drops in terms of pounds, therefore pounds can buy more dollars, therefore pounds can buy more American products, therefore pounds must not be allowed to buy more American products, because more American products might choke a starving England with the necessities of life...