Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...striking contrast were Kate Smith, Washington, D. C.'s tremendous contribution to radio, and that other Washington musician, small, blue-eyed William Hartman Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury. Young William Curtis Bok, who presided at the speakers' table, .asked Maestro Stokowski and his men to play Mr. Woodin's Covered Wagon suite. The Secretary of the Treasury beamed modestly throughout the performance, then made a little speech: "When I heard my poor music so wonderfully played by Prince Stokowski and his men, I thought, 'There is music in the Treasury and, I hope, harmony...
...roots or seeds, without ancestors or descendants, without ties, associates or future." This is the theme of the latest stave in Romain Rolland's protracted swan son?. Author Rolland's famed ten-volume Jean Christophe, published before the War, told everything there was to tell about a musician of genius. The Soul Enchanted, of which the Death of a World is the fourth but not last installment, has a woman as hero. (Other volumes: Annette and Sylvie, Summer, If other and Son.) Even if 67-year-old Author Holland should not live to complete his plan, readers will...
Like most musicians, Mine Samaroff has suffered long from the superficiality of U. S. audiences. It was impressed upon her at the beginning of her career when a New York manager made her change her name from Hickenlooper (she was the daughter of a San Antonio army officer). She felt it even more in the years when she was making her career and Conductor Leopold Stokowski. to whom she was married for twelve years, was making his. Eight years ago Mine Samaroff fell over a trunk, tore a ligament in her right arm, had to five up concert work...
...favor, but she remains devoted to her surly absentee husband. Sinister Mrs. Forgate, who has a reputation as a husband-poisoner, watches with a cold eye the passionate friendship between her gigolo Antonio and the Keatsian poet Dacbe. Lad Greengable, godlike lifeguard with literary leanings, and Jacqueline, mannish musician, look longingly at Sylvia. Angela Flower (recognizable caricature of Aimee Semple McPherson) shouts hoarse evangelism through cocktail parties. Sol Mosier, neurotic antique dealer, pines for new sensations...
Bitter Sweet (British & Dominions) is a lavender-scented reproduction of Noel Coward's operetta about a girl who married a young musician, became a dancer at the Viennese cafe where he led the orchestra, attracted the attentions of a lecherous captain, had her heart broken when the captain stabbed her husband to death. With much more charm than most British musicomedies-which are inclined to be prim and lazy-Bitter Sweet is notable chiefly for its blonde leading lady, Anna Neagle, a onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made...