Word: musicianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they seem mysteriously charming. She is grateful to be taken into their closed circle, immediately falls in love with the head man, Dick Diver. But he seems to be perfectly happy with his beautiful wife, Nicole, and their two children. Other members of the set are Abe North, a musician who no longer works at it, his wife and Tommy Barban, half-French soldier of fortune. After a party at the Divers', Rosemary begins to realize there is something strange about Nicole and her relations with Dick. They all go up to Paris together where Dick falls in love...
Widow Kahn and the banker's second son, Musician Roger Wolfe Kahn, were waiting at the door. Mrs. Kahn wept so bitterly when she saw the coffin that she could not bring herself to announce the funeral arrangements. For three days the body lay in the hushed house of many rooms. Through the gloomy light of Manhattan afternoons gleamed the soft faces and figures of the dead man's favorite Botticellis and Rembrandts. On the fourth day the body was taken to the Kahn estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. where for 14 summers Otto Kahn...
Charles Beecher (1815-1900) was the family musician, a hymn-writer and also a heretic...
...little attention to Fannie Hurst, but plain readers have made her one of the most popular dishes on the counter. Anitra's Dance tells of a wild household of hyphenated Americans noisily existing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Head of the house was Papa Bruno, famed musician who somehow managed to do his composing in the same room with a squabbling family bridge game. Other dwellers under the stormy roof were his peasanty wife, a fat daughter and her secretive husband, a loafing son with whom Bruno was always on the verge of a dangerous quarrel, a superannuated...
...Bewitched} and Charles MacArthur (Salvation}. Like Yellow Jack, Dodsworth, which opened last fortnight with equally enthusiastic reviews and made Sidney Howard the most successful dramatist of the season, was an adaptation. At work last week on a novel about his father-like his father-in-law a musician-Playwright Howard took time out to write a preface for Yellow Jack when it is published next month. Excerpts...