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True to its name Howard Hanson's new symphony struck no harsh, debatable notes. He attempted to put his listeners in a mellow, tolerant mood when he de scribed it in the program as an "escape from the rather bitter type of modern musical realism which occupies so large a place in contemporary thought." He had used melodies which were conventionally sweet. His horns sang out politely over tremulous violins. Critics were not impressed but the bulk of the audience was far more enthusiastic than it had been over the stark, sardonic symphony of Bernard Wagenaar, played earlier...
...whole tone is rough, sodden, gray, inarticulate. The plot is of little or no moment--nay almost non-existent. The picture is too disjointed, too inchoate to be a work of art. No exceptional photographic ability is shown. The actors have little individuality. But the picture is essentially warm, mellow, and human. And it has a certain amount of homely simple humor. It ends characteristically when one of the workers, trying to emulate the example of American engineers, succeeds in spitting on his own shoe...
...curious about Halsey. Stuart's former radio program, "The Old Counselor." Inaugurated with an address by Pennsylvania's obstreperous Congressman McFadden, it was a weekly investment talk prepared by Halsey, Stuart and read by Professor Bertram Griffith Nelson of the University of Chicago because he had a "mellow voice." Banker Stuart protested that the "Old Counselor" had never recommended specific securities, had several times warned against inflated stock prices...
...share you become a "Proprietor" and may roam at will through the dingy-faced, bronze-doored building at No. 10 1/2 Beacon Street, across from the Bellevue Hotel and in front of old Granary burying ground. The Athenaeum's interior was remodeled in 1913 but it is still mellow, musty. Its most famed room is the Scruple Room, so-called because the large collection of pornographic books it contains is catalogued with a pharmacist's "scruple mark." To draw books from these shelves one must go to the librarian and boldly name the book. The Athenaeum...
...private life, homely Henry Louis Mencken was never an ogreish misanthrope. It did not take marriage with Sara Powell Haardt, two and one-half years ago, to mellow him. At 52 Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once...