Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tang, a well-known Chinese musician and graduate of the Chinese National Institute of Music and now studying at Yale's Graduate School of Music, will play some typical Chinese instruments; the hoo-chin, similar to the western violin in construction but with a different tuning scale, and the pee-bah, comparable to the Occidental guitar, will be demonstrated. Indian and Turkish students may play some of their instruments also, notably the Indian flute. Native folk songs and Chinese opera scenes will be presented against an Oriental backdrop of Chinese landscape murals...
Last week, too, the University of Chicago gave the best books notion its greatest merchandising improvement since the idea originally occurred around 1915 to Columbia's Musician-Novelist John ("Roaring Jack") Erskine. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, owned by the University of Chicago (TIME, Feb. 1), earmarked $400,000 to prepare the Hutchins Edition of approximately 100 great books. The University's Vice President William Burnett Benton called this "the backfire approach in bringing educational ideas to the public against the invested interests of education." The backfire is scheduled to reach the public...
When World War II came, Musician John Rossi of Methuen, Mass, was ready. In 1917 he had watched the boys march away; he had two small children and an obligation to stay home. But when the Massachusetts National Guard was called to Federal service this time, Rossi had 18 years of training behind him and was inducted as a technical sergeant. His children were grown and he was thrice a grandfather...
...Mexico City last week movie houses were packed by a wretched distortion of the life of Agustin Lara. Called Noches de Ronda ("Nights of Revelry"), it was a pale, sentimental story of a café musician's rise to radio fame. The face in the film was not the pinched, knife-scarred face of Lara, Mexico's most popular songwriter. The producers had taken one look at that and decided to give the role to the handsome singer Ramón Armengod. But what drew throngs to the box office was Lara's fantastic personal reputation...
...lobby a young girl stood silently looking at the blown-up portrait of Harry James-a slender, mustachioed, modest young musician...