Word: musicianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East Wind. Sigmund Romberg (Nina Rosa, The New Moon) is the lushest musician working for the musical comedy stage. His melodies, usually boomed by a great big band, come out thick as fudge. For East Wind Composer Romberg has done his fudgiest. Pleasing result: a martial number called "East Wind," a stomp-time ballad named "You Are My Woman" and a lament "I'd Be A Fool...
...restriction of choice is fairly apparent in cases where an experienced stenographer who can translate German is wanted, or a musician who can play the base viol. Many do not appreciate that the hands of the Office are just as tightly bound in instances much more common. Few realize that often employers are very particular about securing experienced waiters, for example. On the surface it would seem that any man could wait table. Only last week, however, a call came from a boarding house manager for a fall, erect, neat man with a clear complexion and at least two years...
...down strokes represent the music going up & down? Said a note on the program: "The cover represents an artist's earnest experiment in translating into line drawing the equivalent of a response to music. . . . The artistic success must be left to the critical judgment of the musician, the artist and the interested audience." Amused at her cover's reception, Mrs. Moody said that she had been given a set of phonograph records from Mârouf, had played them in her spare time and jotted down "impressions." Business Manager Wilfred Davis of the Opera selected the final designs...
...such up & coming trades as undertaking, press-agenting, real estate, beautifying. Self-conscious pride has enriched the language with the fancy names "mortician," "public relations counsel," "realtor," "beautician." A profession which has never needed a prop to elegance and dignity is Music, yet last week there came a musician's lament. A letter to proud Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra from sensitive Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony was published. Excerpt...
Aging Alfred now spends most of his time in Florida. He became a newsworthy figure again last year when he started a pension fund for Delaware's deserving aged. He is an able engineer, has invented many a powder machine. He is an able musician, likes a violin. Once he organized and conducted a band at the powder-works, composed stirring marches. The Marine Band recently tried to get copies of them but found he has given up music, destroyed his manuscripts. His hobby now is his yacht Alicia (named for his second wife), designed...