Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra put on an all-Rachmaninoff program, with 65-year-old Rachmaninoff himself as soloist. Besides his First Piano Concerto and Third Symphony were played three of his Preludes, newly tricked out in orchestral dress by Orchestrator Lucien Cailliet...
...Preludes was the famed "Flatbush." After listening to Cailliet's orchestration, the gloomy Rachmaninoff unbent, expressed himself as "happy" with the results. After the concert he unbent still further, told Philadelphia reporters he disliked swing but greatly admired the jazz of 15 years ago. "Ah," said Pianist Rachmaninoff, "if I could only hear that fine pianist, Eddy Duchin, playing Irving Berlin's Blue Skies, I'd be very happy...
...early as 1930 Publisher Vann sensed the changing political wind, shifted from Republican to Democrat. His subsequent rise under the wing of Senator Guffey lasted until two years ago when, at the Philadelphia national convention, Jim Farley learned that many a Negro preacher disapproved of Publisher Vann. Named in his place to lead the campaign of 1936 among Negroes was his distinguished friend, Lawyer Julian D. Rainey of Boston...
This affront rankled, but this year Publisher Vann's chance to get even is none too good. Half of Pennsylvania's Negro vote is in Philadelphia-out of his immediate bailiwick-and in Pittsburgh much of the Negro vote is on WPA where it cannot easily be weaned from the New Deal. One acute Pennsylvania observer last week declared: "If I had a penny for every vote Vann can swing without Guffey pressure on the WPA, I could go to the movies...
...keep track of her and has swindled his partner out of $15,000 to oblige her with a trip around the world. When detectives beat him to the boat, Harry makes a getaway, wires Martha the whereabouts of all his cash and tells her to meet him in Philadelphia. In her gleeful reply Martha thanks him for the money, bids good-by and nuts to him in a telegram which makes Harry Bogen's most inspired malice sound like baby talk...