Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock" was an impressive example of modern folk opera. The special performance this week deserves to be as weld-received...
...miles west of Madrid to the vast and gloomy Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial. There, in a large hall adjoining what were once the monastery's royal apartments, Generalissimo Franco received the diplomatic corps. Thus ceremonially ended Spain's third and bloodiest civil war of modern times...
...shabby old violins were tested by Acoustical Physicist Frederick Albert Saunders of Harvard, in collaboration with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Their conclusion (announced last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...
...world's air forces. Even with camouflage they will probably be used in the next great war, both for their identification factor and because the sight of friendly wings overhead is a morale builder for ground troops. As the flags of nations have disappeared from modern battlefields, they thus reappear, in new forms (see next two pages), in the battles...
...Cradle Will Rock," a ten-scene satire dealing bitterly with modern industrial strife, was first produced late in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman for the Mercury Theatre in New York. When the Federal Theatre withdrew its sponsorship from the production on the opening night, Welles, Houseman, and the whole cast, followed by an angry crowd of first-nighters, trooped across Manhattan to the Venice Theatre...