Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis isn't playing as great jazz as he was ten years ago--for the very good reason that he was just about making jazz at the time and peaks like that are impossible to stay on. Now the critics listen to him and compare him to his greatest period and say that it isn't as good. Of course not--but despite occasional of-nights, his playing is still a great deal better than anybody else's. For samples of Louis at his greatest, get "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, baby" or any of the Earl...
Gouraud got Gladstone's voice, in a wordy tribute to Edison, and the voices of a host of others in London around that period-Florence Nightingale, Sir Henry Irving, Phineas Taylor Barnum. Edison's staffs elsewhere recorded hundreds of others. But within a few years the gramophone industry had become too preoccupied with ragtime and Uncle Josh to stick to the course Edison had plotted...
Geegee and Leelee. Ginger Rogers had one of the most determined mothers of the period. Mrs. Rogers, by this time a reporter on the Fort Worth Record and the highly efficient business manager of the Fort Worth symphony orchestra, quit her jobs after Ginger's Charleston victory, helped manage the tour which was first prize. Four years later, after the customary interludes of night-club engagements and vaudeville acts, Ginger Rogers reached Broadway as ingenue star of Girl Crazy. During the 45-week run of Girl Crazy (at $1,000 a week), Ginger Rogers made five pictures at Paramount...
...Twentieth Century-Fox) will be a revelation to cinemaddicts who have been led to believe that all great figures of the 19th Century were just Tyrone Power in period costume. Alexander Graham Bell turns out to be Don Ameche without a haircut. However, Loretta Young, who is getting to be almost as much of an historical figure as Tyrone Power, appears satisfactorily as Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, a deaf girl who inspired Bell to continue with his invention and not resume his teaching of elocution...
...restless, wasp-waisted artist with his whimsical mustache and eyes of an old crystal-gazer declared last week that for him the period of Surrealist dream-documentation was about over, the period of Paranoiac painting just beginning. Example: The Image Disappears, a painting which is at once a Vermeer-like Young Girl Reading a Letter, and a beady-eyed portrait of a bearded...