Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enchanted Cottage (RKO-Radio) is cinema's second successful production of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's famous play about a fine young man (Robert Young) made ugly by the war, a slavey (Dorothy McGuire) who was born ugly, and a blind musician (Herbert Marshall) who helped instruct them in the vision of the heart. To each other, the young man and the slavey become as beautiful as makeup artists can manage. Helping out with the spiritual atmosphere, there is also a housekeeper named Mrs. Minett (Mildred Natwick) who is gifted with second sight (a high wind makes...
Gypsy has traveled the theatrical road since 1917, two months after she was born in Milwaukee. Her Russian musician father and Egyptian mother-gypsies both -took her to China, India and Europe (where on cold nights Gypsy slept with the bear cubs). At 14 she was playing a secondhand accordion in a Chicago nightspot. She has played in Paris, in Sweden (before King Gustaf), in Egypt (before Farouk), in Washington (for President Roosevelt...
Ernie Banker has applied under pressure for a steady job as Cowie Musician. Harry Magnuson has twice gone into ecstasies over the railroad recording. Company 3 waits with bated breath for a hearing. Bob Lang claims to have a better imitation of that head-on collision on the New Haven line. On his report Fritzy Arsulich advises converting all freight cars into transport planes for complete service...
Died. Romain Rolland, 78, impassioned French novelist and musician, 1915 Nobel Prizewinner for his great ten-volume, semi-autobiographical Jean-Christophe; in Vézelay, France. Long a pacifist, he gave his Nobel Prize money to feed war victims in World War I, retired from France to 24 years "above the battle" in voluntary Swiss exile. Returning to France in 1938, he supported World...
...other men made their marks on the year, Sidney Hillman of the C.I.O. and James Caesar Petrillo of the Musician's Union. Whether or not it decided the election, Hillman's Political Action Committee brought labor closer to the balance of power in national politics than it had ever been before. Petrillo, after successfully defying the War Labor Board and the President of the U.S., rammed home the revolutionary principle of royalties paid by corporations directly to union treasuries...