Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does his own frowsy mother, who, when he was seven and still had his sight, must have been a golden beauty. His illusion of a pretty, black-eyed inamorata brings his first sex consciousness. It sweeps into his life with bewildering ecstasy, as the music of a symphony orchestra might come suddenly to a chanting savage. Into his world of sound, thus transposed by fancy to a heavenly harmony, intrude the raucous gratings of the boarding house. He hears his mother's paramour beating her. Sound can aim a gun as well as sight. He shoots the man dead. Other...
...last scene, the audience sees them together as they appear to audiences on the burlesque circuit, doing a waltz buck while a brazen orchestra shatters her sentiment into cheap, broken rhythms. "Can you make it?" she asks under her breath of her tottering spouse, snapped out of a month's debauch for this merry function. "I can-if you'll stick, kid." "I'll stick-always," she answered, and as the curtain falls the audience knows that she belongs forever to the blah of her man, to the hurdy-gurdy of the footlights...
Married. Mary Cohan, 18, daughter of George M. Cohan, patriot; to one Neil Litt, orchestra leader, following an elopement; at Elkton, Md. Georgette Cohan, eldest daughter of Mr. Cohan eloped in 1921 with one J. William Souther; telegraphed her father: "Married a Yankee Doodle boy. Wave your flag." Mr. Souther died in 1925 and she later married and divorced one William Hamilton Rowse. Mr. Cohan was divorced from his first wife, Actress Ethel 'Levey, who afterwards married Claude Graham White, famed British aviator...
...many echoes of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's heroism, not the least sincere is the symphonic portrayal, We, composed by James Philip Dunn of Jersey City, N. J. At City College, Manhattan, where the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under Willem van Hoogstraten plays nightly to music lovers in the summer, We last week had its premiere...
...wanted to be a musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon...