Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hell's Angels began before the movies were old enough to talk. Producer Hughes spent a third and part of a fourth million to put voices and sounds into his production. No detail was considered too minute for meticulous attention. Hughes himself is a licensed pilot able to perform almost every stunt for which he paid his flyers. He drives a motor car fast but keeps paint on his mudguards. He is fond of golf and Cinemactress Billie Dove, who recently acquired a nickel-plated Rolls-Royce...
...York: "The worst of the business depression is past. Our banking system is ready and able to finance expansion. . . . By the stimulating use of advertising, much valuable preparatory work can be done. . . . Gradually the banker has come to realize that whatever service it is proper to perform in banking . . it is proper to make a human presentation...
...children are driven from or leave home until the neglected, crack-brained son murders his stepmother. But Jewish audiences, munching chocolates, were not as interested in the melodramatic antics of the family on the stage as they were in the family of Adlers -"the Barrymores of Jewry"-who were performing the piece. Gathered together for the first time on one stage, the cast was all-Adler; seven of the nine sons and daughters and one son-in-law of the late great Jacob Pavlowich Adler. Born in Odessa, Russia, in 1855, Jacob Adler became successively public official, journalist, actor...
...Mass. It is doubtful if Bach, an ardent Lutheran, ever intended his monumental Mass to be given in the Catholic Church. Nor was it practical because of its great length for use in the Lutheran service (it takes nearly three hours to perform). It was conceived probably with little thought for its future, as an expression of Bach's own deep, personal faith, inspired by the simple piety that led him to inscribe even the little clavier pieces composed for his children with the words In Nomine Jesu. Yet the text adheres to the form of the Ordinary...
...called forth no Hardy harangue but found little favor in his eyes. His only ambition was to have his poems published in a good anthology, like Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Asked to succeed the late great George Meredith as president of the Society of Authors, he wrote : "I must . . . perform the disagree able duty of acting upon my own conviction of what is for the Society's good, and tell you that I feel compelled to decline the honour." A few weeks later he accepted...