Word: opus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amusing place in which to spend a day or two but there cannot be many who would be able to stand "365 Nights in Hollywood." The songs are none too catchy, the story is unbelievably atrocious and Alice Faye who seems to be the raison d'etre of the opus would do much better in a cabaret where she would not be forced to dim her physical charms by unsuccessful attempts at acting. Despite these failings the picture will please if you are not in too cerebral a mood...
...Lord Blesses the Bishop (by Hatcher Hughes; Glen W. McNaughton, producer). Professor Hughes of Columbia University won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize with Hell-bent for Heaven. The Professor's current opus is about a sophisticated artist who wants a baby, while his wife is only interested in amateur theatricals. The artist has the baby by an obliging French girl, an act which his wife takes with thoroughgoing good sportsmanship. Professor Hughes, in all probability, will not win the 1935 Pulitzer Prize with The Lord Blesses the Bishop...
...program to be played by Professor Ballantine contains the following numbers: Sonata, Opus 109, by Beethoven; Gigue in G, by Bach; Romance, by Brahms; Cappricio, by Brahms; Impromptu in G. Flat, by Chopin; Rumanian Christmas Songs, by Bartok; and Goldfish, by Debussy...
Poet Pound's magnum opus, the Cantos, is written in a form peculiar to him: a kind of poetic newspaper, its fragmentary comments ranging through half-a-dozen centuries, cast in as many languages, sprinkled with "unprintable" Anglo-Saxon terms whenever they come in handy. In Eleven New Cantos the interludes of recognizable poetry are rarer, the shorthand economic diatribes more frequent. Hopeful speculators who try to plot the curve of Poet Pound's current issue will be sadly shaken as it zooms from the 18th Century to the 20th, bumps down to the 15th, changes its orbit...
...interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum opus. 3 MEN DIE-Sarah Gertrude Millin- Harper ($2.50). Sombre story of a South African murderess, by the author of God's Stepchildren. Non-Fiction...