Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Fairy. After samples of how inept Viennese comedy can be (I Love An Actress, A Church Mouse), the season has at last afforded the genuine article by the maestro who holds the controlling interest in that branch of contemporary drama -Ferenc Molnar...
Previously she had studied violin in Milan, secured a small job at La Scala. In 1915 she became associated with Maestro Arturo Toscanini. helped him organize an opera season in Milan. Five years later she became his secretary. Tactful, efficient, she was useful in coping with his famed tantrums, in keeping people out of his way when necessary. But many were not yet ready to take her seriously. It is told how the conductor Antonio Guarnieri once met her on his way to the Maestro's office. Said she: "I am Signorina Colombo. What can I do for you?" Said...
...great New York banking houses. And sweet was his music to the ears of depositors in seven small broken banks in and around the city. The tune said they would get an immediate payment of 50 per cent of their $42,000,000 total deposits, more later. Maestro Gibson's once precarious, now potent Manufacturers Trust Co., backed with $20,000,000 provided by itself and the city's other big banks and banking firms, was going to liquidate the seven defunct banks...
...birth of books is never quite legitimate, and often their parentage is hopelessly confused. Few carry their lineage so plainly in their lineaments as Alexanderplatz, Berlin, first Big Book obviously fathered by Maestro James Joyce's potent, muchdiscussed, comparatively little-read Ulysses. Author Doblin makes no acknowledgment to Maestro Joyce; none is necessary...
...Significance- James Joyce, whether or not he intended to be, has been an authors' author. His cultivation of the "stream-of-consciousness" method, use of a wide-angled lens in picturing his landscapes, resulted in writing too hard for the general reader. Other authors have taken from Maestro Joyce a hint here & there, or have aped him slavishly for the precious few. Herr Doblin is the first to copy him on a large scale and for a wide audience. Perhaps only through such filters as Alexander platz will Joyce's strong waters be made potable to the public...