Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Svelte Eve Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie, sister of fellow-traveling Irene, arrived in Manhattan to start an eleven-week lecture tour on France's struggle for civilization (at some $500 a lecture...
Playwright Noel Coward (Private Lives) arrived in Manhattan, took in a few Broadway shows, sailed away for his annual winter sunning in Jamaica...
Pianist Gieseking was one of the last men in the world who could speak with certainty on U.S. attitudes. Where politics and art conflicted, the U.S. had not always been sure itself. During World War I, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (and scores of other U.S. concert halls) had stopped presenting the music of Wagner-only to feel shamefaced about it afterward. In World War II, the Met kept right on with Wagner, but did not present Madame Butterfly, because of the opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after...
Pianist Gieseking didn't know far enough, as he soon found out. First, he learned that he was only on parole to his manager. Then, while he was resting in his Manhattan hotel room four hours before concert time, the phone rang. He would have to go to the immigration office. There, by his account, he was confronted with "five newspaper articles . . . criticizing me . . . I could not answer immediately, since much of the material I needed was in Europe. I was told that a decision on my case would take four to six weeks. I didn't want...
...Francisco, listeners and critics thought at first they heard a faint whirring and grinding of gears. Heifetz himself, his usual platform poker face masking his nervousness, found it "hard to get going again." But by the time he had plucked and bowed Bach and Mozart across the U.S., Manhattan fiddle-fans found that the old Heifetz engine was still hard to beat...