Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven in Cleveland, as an old man in a sketch called Two Corpses at Breakfast. He took to the stage as naturally as a grocer's son takes to the counter. But his parents had other ambitions for him. To the Jews of that generation any kind of musician was higher in the social scale than an actor. Paul was to be a violinist. He took his lessons dutifully but one day went to his father with his violin and told him he wanted to stay on the stage. The old man sadly took the violin, broke it across...
...will concern modifications of Madame Butterfly (which Paramount made twice before, most lately in 1932 with Sylvia Sydney and no music) to make it more complimentary to Japan, better propaganda for the kind of occidentalization in which the Konoyes specialize. In the Konoye Butterfly, Pinkerton is a U. S. musician instead of a Navy lieutenant. After he reluctantly deserts Cho Cho San, she decides to be a singer, goes to the U. S. for her grand debut. Instead of a tragedy, the Konoye Butterfly, which the Viscount hopes to have photographed mostly in Japan with a Japanese actress...
...Mister is the mill owner. He corrupts a doctor, bulldozes an editor, terrorizes a college president and arranges for the assassination of a labor organizer. Mrs. Mister gives a clergyman his weekly dole and tells him what to say in his sermons. She keeps a painter and a musician on her string. The two sing a song which goes...
...France with the A.E.F. as a private, came out as a sergeant. In 1925 he went back to France, worked on the Paris editions of the Chicago Tribune, New York Herald, with Eugene Jolas founded the literary left-wing review transition (TIME, July 13). An accomplished musician, Author Paul is an authority on the clavichord and harpsichord, is now working on a "musical novel" (his eighth) in Manhattan. He hopes to get back to Iviza "some...
There was an unusually big morning audience at Manhattan's Palace Theatre one day last week. When 200 of them failed to leave after the first show, the management learned what was up. The 200 were jobless musicians from Local 802, biggest branch of the American Federation of Musicians. They had come well-supplied with cigarets and sandwiches and prepared to stay in their seats until RKO Service Corp. should agree to hire two movie-house orchestras for its theatres in each of New York's five boroughs. By the time they had seen the fifth...