Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complicated framework of "Wien, du Stadt der Lieder" is such that she could hardly be expected to follow the intricate love problems of Steffi, a Viennese shopgirl, who is almost cast into the willing arms of the almost rich tenor butcher only to be rescued for her unemployed musician by the discovery that there was a mistake in the numbers of the lottery tickets, which makes the course of true love lead to a proper ending on rails of gold...
...down. A railroad man to the core, he has only one automobile, a Cadillac which he turns in every August for a new model. His two younger sons take to railroading, but his eldest is determined to be a singer. Railroader Atterbury once remarked: "If you become the greatest musician in the world, what of it?" He reads very light novels, likes duckshooting, plays his own rules at contract with a stern righteousness and no little success. While working he smokes endless cigarets, whistles most of the time. Once on the coast of Alaska his 110-ft. yacht was boarded...
...Europe, which first understood the poetry of Poe and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, to produce an extensive and scholarly appreciation of U. S. jazz. In a book called Aux Frontieres du Jazz, now current in Paris, Robert Coffin, Belgian musical essayist, explains fastidiously what every good jazz musician knows but few would be able to express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi as Saxophonists Jimmy Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Trum-bauer, Adrian Rollini; Trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols, the late...
...most persistent exhibition visitor. He is one of the most persistent newspaper letter writers in the country. Not long ago he adopted the title Mahatma (Great Soul) and has spent a small fortune printing little pamphlets and books to prove that he is the greatest painter, poet, musician and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer" in the world. He has also invented a portable piano and a game like pinochle known as "Sixers" (TIME...
Once, for a pal in the R. A. F., Shaw filled in this personal report: "Favorite color: scarlet. Favorite dish: bread & water. Favorite musician: Mozart. Favorite author: Wm. Morris. Favorite character in history: Nil. Favorite place: London. Greatest pleasure: sleep. Greatest pain: noise. Greatest fear: animal spirits. Greatest wish: to be forgotten of my friends...