Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pierre Belcroix (Earle Larimore), a journeyman musician, and his wife Romaine (Edna Best) are visited by an eminent amorist and violinist, Marcel Blanc (Mr. Rathbone). In no time at all the ancient triangle situation develops. As the curtain falls on Act I there is a charming scene in the virtuoso's apartment, with Miss Best lying in Mr. Rathbone's arms and humming Lehar's "Dein ist Mein Ganzes Hertz." In Act II, however, the affair becomes less idyllic. Miss Best tries to poison her husband while Mr. Rathbone is away on a concert tour. Detected by a doctor...
Outside Congress, "Nick" Longworth was the gay, garrulous bon vivant whom Washington officialdom knew and loved best. About him in his Massachusetts Avenue home his friends constantly gathered informally. A thorough musician (he had a standing order for new compositions from the Library of Congress), he would play on the violin, the organ or the piano. Then he would sing old college ballads, sentimental ditties or long songs for men only. His favorite stories were Elizabethan. He maintained active membership in the Royal & Joyous Fellowship of Elbow-benders. He doted on doggerel. Example...
Died. Jacob Koppel Sandier, 74, composer of Eili, Eili, famed Jewish lament (often thought to be an old folk-song), oldtime choirmaster and musician in East Side Manhattan theatres; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Composed in 1896 for a Yiddish play, the song attained great popularity, but Mr. Sandier did not copyright it until 1919, never received more than a tithe of his rightful royalties...
...music-wise will welcome the return of Walter, eagerly await what he may do with a worthy orchestra. That he is a serious, sincere musician was proved at the beginning of his career when his name was Schlesinger. He conducted a performance of Die Meistersinger and Felix Weingartner, his superior, was so pleased with the results that he dubbed him Walter, after Wagner's hero. The name stuck and young Schlesinger formally adopted it, perhaps because he guessed that the more obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once...
...sound effects with complete success. For one interested in the types of making, here is a movie that abounds in well-chosen characters of all kinds, their make-up cleverly applied, with the exception of the hero-composer, whose grey locks of middle age and a life as a musician are clumsily applied in amateurish fashion quite out of keeping with the handing of the other details...