Word: music
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific Music...
Said he: "I would like to produce all the plays of Shakespeare in America. Why doesn't some American magnate try some thing different - Hamlet with Chaplin, for instance, accompanied by good jazz music." Elmer L. Rice, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning play Street Scene, said last week: "After 15 years in the theatre I am convinced that nobody knows anything about it. This play . . . was turned down by all the prominent New York producers who told me it wasn't a play. ... I never have followed rules or technique." Thomas Tunney, Manhattan detective, brother of retired fisticuffer...
Muriel McCormick, daughter of Chicago Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick, last week established residence in Rochester, N. Y., intending study at the famed Eastman School of Music...
...Manhattan, 100 idle musicians, with Socialist and Federation support, last week announced a series of public concerts in the New York Coliseum. There they hope to draw a full audience of 15,000 to hear produced, not reproduced, music at prices as low as 25 cents and 50 cents...
...shadow fell over Bayreuth last week. From Berlin came news that she who had learned the music-drama gospel from the lips of the master, she who had created Isolde in America, she who had been called the greatest of Wagnerian singers, was gone. Lilli Lehmann was dead...