Word: opus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan is offering, in addition to free dancing in the Platinum Salon, a double-edged bill consisting of a stage show starring the harmonizing Pickens Sisters of radio fame and a new Robert Taylor opus called "Private Number." It appears to be a romantic sort of parlor comedy with Loretta Young playing the seductive servant girl and getting all in love with the handsome rich boy. They go through the customary trials and after a reassuring struggle against the forces of convention and class feeling emerge safe into Curid's pure light...
...screen this week is displaying the new Carole Lombard opus. "The Princess Comes Across" and the boards are carrying the weighty burden of a Cliff Edwards hodge-podge. The film is of the light comedy type and tells all about how a fake princess gets involved in murderous doing on a great trans-Atlantic liner. It's really not bad. Real royalty is sporting itself upon the Loew's screens in the handsome persons of Grace Moore and Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz...
...almost a decade ago shocked Hanover by revealing his experience as butler in the home of a respected faculty member (The Professor's Wife), turns to reminiscence of his long residence in Paris. Still an irrepressible extrovert, Author Imbs devotes most of his current opus to little anecdotes about Gertrude Stein. George Antheil and their respective circles...
...done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects have roused more laughter than thought. Since retiring from the editorship of the American Mercury, Mencken has brought out several treatises in soberer vein. His biggest opus, first published in the brave days of 1919, last week reappeared in a guise so transfigured that it was almost unrecognizable...
...regular Friday and Saturday concerts of this week, Dr. Koussevitzky has announced the following program: Handel's Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra Opus 6, No. 6; Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F major; and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor...