Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchestra excelled when they played Richard Strauss' waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier," and the suite from "Carmen." These two stand-bys put the audience into just the mood into which they wanted to be put, and the two Khatchourian dances, at once delicate and vigorous, led to "Finlandia," which rounded out the first half of the program. After the intermission, Benjamin Britten's variations on Rossini provided a brilliant modern interpretation of this airy, yet worldly, composer...
...Toscanini took a garrulous lady friend to see The Telephone, which concerns a woman who spends so much time gabbling on the phone that she wouldn't listen to a proposal. Toscanini, in a waggish mood, got Menotti to substitute the friend's phone number for the phony number usually used in the opera...
Little Sympathy. Were Congress and the people in a mood to sanction such vast foreign expenditures? In the Senate. Arthur Vandenberg made a practical suggestion: a bipartisan advisory council of citizens to survey the American economy, determine how much could be drained from it for transfusions to the world's economy without impairing U.S. health. But many a Congressman showed little sympathy for expanding U.S. ventures in internationalism. House-Senate conferees agreed on an import fee on wool which, if it became law, might wreck Administration efforts at Geneva for freer world trade (TIME, June 2). Marshall and Under...
Madrid is an accurate index to the expansive mood of Spain's rich & mighty who follow the traditional social season-Seville in April, Madrid in May and June, San Sebastian in July and August (then back to the Madrid black market for the drab winter months). Now they jam the Palace and Chicote bars, their ranks reinforced by distinguished foreign refugees such as the Petacci family of Mussolini's late mistress, Clara...
Vanished Illusions. The reason Lazareff was in such an eruptive mood last week was that his staff was up to something, and for once, he had no idea what it was. This week he found out: it was a surprise dinner to celebrate his 25 years as a working journalist. It was a long and remarkably successful career to be celebrating at 40. Lazareff started sending articles to theater weeklies at twelve. Despite his father's warnings 'that French journalism was only for "misfits and blackmailers," at 15 he started a weekly of his own. He called...