Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honorary citizen" of France, arrived in Manhattan last week after a crossing that was bumpier than anything by Stravinsky. On his arrival he told reporters a story: Long before Herr Walter changed his residence for political reasons, he conducted a series of Munich concerts attended by a music-lover who last week changed his name for religious reasons, Eugenio Pacelli. While the series was in progress, Walter's friend, Russian Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was imprisoned on charges of espionage. Gabrilowitsch got a message to Walter, who spoke to Pacelli, who whispered in someone's ear. In not much...
...best equipment, but except for child auditors the Siegfried dragon, for example, seems hardly worth the trouble. This beast requires the services of eight men-two inside it, two to operate the pulleys opening and closing its jaws, one to shoot steam from its mouth, one to shout its music through a megaphone backstage, an assistant conductor watching for the conductor's beat through a peephole, a prompter speaking the dragon's words from the score. It is still only a papier-mache dragon...
Nora Waln's Reaching for the Stars would do this majority good. A 43-year-old Pennsylvania Quaker, Nora Wain married an Englishman in the service of the Chinese government, went with him to Germany when he resigned to study music. They arrived a few days before the Blood Purge of June 1934, returned to England last April...
...Music columnists will have an opportunity to write for the CRIMSON by entering a short competition which will begin this evening at 7:30 o'clock. The plan of the competition is to continue with the CRIMSON'S policy of printing columns by men in the University who are experts on special subjects...
With all the gay spirit of her name, "Zaza" dances and twirls her petticoats and darts exciting French eyes to the farthest corners of the University Theatre. As a vivacious music-hall entertainer, Claudette Colbert finds a part suited to her temperament, and handles her high kicks and train of suitors with the same refreshing ability. But when necessities of plot turn her heart towards a rich, Parisian businessman, only stuffy and always noble Herbert Marshall is available to reap the profits. It was a sad mistake for the producers to import Mr. Marshall from the dignity of his Paris...