Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Rice cannily offers the audience more than just Boy Meets Girl; his real hero is Manhattan Island. With dozens of minor characters, scenes in subways, taxis, rubberneck wagons, a producer's office, an artist's studio, an all-night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks...
Mozart: Symphony in G Minor, K. 550 (NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor: 6 sides). Feverish Composer Mozart wrote his greatest three symphonies in six busy weeks. Maestro Toscanini and his NBC men give one of the three a brilliant, driving, but not too well-recorded performance...
...William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...
...They have just released a series of albums that they call the "Add-A-Part." Quite simply, the idea is that you get an album of string quartet music minus one part. In the case of the album I received, it was the Bach Double Violin Concerto in D minor, without the first violin part. Included with the album is the complete score for the first violin part, so that you can practice quartet playing to your heart's content and get various little intricacies down, such as phrasing and exact tempos...
...baseball farm system, by which big-league teams own or control whole minor-league teams or some of their players, was considered a form of slavery in the early days of baseball. Nowadays it is considered quite legal. The World's Champion Yankees, for example, control 13 minor-league teams. The main rules are: 1) no team may own or control two teams in the same league; and 2) all deals, transfers, etc. must be properly recorded with High Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis...