Word: musicianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover, no musician, took the sheet and glanced over it, Congressman Bloom hurried on to explain that he was not trying to "plug" the song by White House publicity because "Father of the Land We Love" was not to be sold commercially but was to be distributed free throughout the land by the Federal Commission for 1932 singing. However, after leaving the President's office, Mr. Bloom stopped in the White House press room, stepped up beside a bust of George Washington, and began to sing the first verse...
When an author writes a book or a musician composes an opera, the civilized world has agreed that their interests in those properties do not cease with the first sale. In the U. S. they and their heirs may collect royalties for 28 years with the option of renewing the copyright for an additional 28 years. On July 20, 1920 the French Chamber of Deputies passed a law known as the droit de suite (literally, "right of following") which attempts to do for the original works of a painter or sculptor what copyright laws do for the other arts...
...been coaxed by Carl Laemmle Jr., who admired her in Death Takes a Holiday. Her face, not conventionally beautiful, photographs better when turned toward the camera than in profile. The charm of her low voice perfectly survives recording. Born Rose Kefer in Manhattan 25 years ago of musician parents (her father, a cellist; her mother, a singer) Miss Hobart was educated to be a concert pianist. Instead she became a proficient harpist. At 18 she married a theatrical scene designer, is now divorced. She is domestic, practical, thrifty; makes her own clothes, cooks well. She is a competent horsewoman, swimmer...
Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski is probably the only musician who could command such consideration from New York City authorities and a great steamship line. But Paderewski has been a figure greatly honored this year. He is 70 and early last season he underwent an appendectomy which seriously threatened to end his career (TIME, Oct. 7, 1929). This year he returned to the U. S. (traveling for the first time without Madame Paderewska who is incurably ill in Switzerland), made a nation-wide concert tour, played 80 concerts to jam-packed houses of people who suspected they were hearing...
...Bliss was hostess and housekeeper, until he died in 1911. She had learned kindness and sociability in this career, and in 1912 she stepped not only into wealth but popularity. Artists such as the late Arthur B. Davies, actors like Walter Hampden, Ruth Draper, Ethel Barrymore, and many a musician attended her formal, wineless soirees. By 1913 she was helping organize the historic exhibition in Manhattan's Squadron "A" Armory which introduced a continent to Modernism. One of the earliest collectors of modern paintings, in 1929 she was co-founder (with Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller and Mrs. Cornelius...