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...grasp on a single hearing. If in Vienna Composer Schonberg was listening he perhaps resented such homely praise. He started Gnrrelieder when he was 26 (he is 57 now), when he was deeply impressed with Wagner's harmonic combinations, Wagner's use of Leitmotifs. Inspired by Wag ner, he wrote music of stirring beauty. But most of his later, more original works have struck laymen as hideous and obscure. They have had a certain technical interest in that they have grown out of extensive experiments with chromatics and the twelve-tone scale. They illustrate new elaborately propounded principles...
...Well, what became of the old full din ner pail? . . . Bank failures blazed in the headlines of every newspaper across the country, bankruptcy proceedings,, fore closures on mortgages, depreciation in the value of prime securities, paralysis of busi ness & industry and. topping it all, 7,000,000 men out of work. . . . The Administration plans for the relief of unemploy ment are indefensible. . . . Why, they passed the question along to the States. localities and private charities [which] cannot cope with the situation. . . . Now, what is the record of these two forms of relief? First is relief in the home; second...
Like his confreres in the Northwestern backfield (Meenan, Potter, Olson, Rus-sell), big, blond Ernest ("Pugger") Rent-ner affects a nonchalance which some-times discourages Coach Dick Hanley. He lounges about the field at practice, bestirring himself less when he carries the ball than when he has a chance to perform a chore many footballers hate- blocking. After practice, he jumps a high wire fence at one end of the practice field at Evanston, a feat so precarious that Coach Hanley has considered making it impossible by topping the fence with barbed wire. On the field, his number...
...lead a band or play violin solos; his ingenuity is limitless; he never fails. Best of Mickey Mouse competitors is Koko the Clown, of Fleischer Bros.' Out-of-the-Inkwell Series. Others: Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables, Charles Mintz's Krazy Kat, War ner Bros.' Looney Tunes...
...Author? William Faulkner, 34, small, dark, of a distinguished Southern family (Great-grandfather William Faulk ner wrote the once famed romantic novel, The White Rose of Memphis'), lives in Oxford, Miss. During the War he served as lieutenant in the Canadian Flying Corps, crashed once, hurt his foot. Other books: Soldier's Pay, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury...