Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just how tight money is in Germany today the Government rashly advertised last week by seizing the Berlin bank account of famed Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque and accusing him: 1) of having established a residence in the Netherlands and 2) of banking outside Germany his dollar, pound, franc, lira and other royalties...
...welfare and political improvement." Illinois' Secretary of State William J. Stratton refused them a charter. He ruled that the name they had picked would reflect upon the dignity of the State. Out of admiration for Charles Gates Dawes, they had picked his notorious oldtime expletive, "Hell 'n Maria...
...lady-pupil demonstrated the dance floor, gingerly moved her arms and head to "play" the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. Theremin's pupils performed individually, on space-controlled instruments which have a tone-quality something like a cello's, and on keyboard instruments which are in principle the same but sound more like woodwinds. Finally the pupils performed altogether, sounded not unlike a group of children, a little uncertain as to pitch, blowing on combs and tissue paper...
...best Maria Egiziaca is not likely to become so popular as the Fountains of Rome and the Pines of Rome. When he started this famed cycle (1916) Respighi had a sure-fire formula fixed in his head. He would do a musical baedeker with gay, faintly comic descriptions, the kind of thing the Russians had taught him to write. He would write dreamy, sensuous interludes, great, glittering climaxes...
...performances, Roman Festivals (third poem in the cycle) 45 performances. Royalties in such cases mount up. Respighi, Stravinsky and the later works of Richard Strauss are expensive to perform. The Philharmonic has to pay $40 each time it plays any one of the Roman poems. (For the privilege of Maria Egiziaca's première, the Philharmonic paid $500.) If the performance is broadcast, Columbia Broadcasting has to pay nearly as much again...