Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mohawk Valley, a model town without looking like it, gave it an art museum and a library, put boxes of flowers on the village's lampposts (an idea he picked up in Hungary). In the old days before the clatter-clang of modern machinery, he hired a pianist to relieve the workers' tedium. Last year, on top of above-average wages, the company set aside $466,249 for its employes (including old-age benefits and a Christmas bonus of $3 times the years of an employe's service). But this welfare capitalism has paid dividends: many...
...including Hine Brown's pretty, violin-playing wife). The players average $10 a concert, get nothing for rehearsals, and the union looks the other way. One reason: Biago Casciano, first horn and librarian of the orchestra, is president of the union local. He is also a barber. When Pianist Marcus Gordon arrived in El Paso to play with the symphony, he dropped into the barbershop for a trim, was amazed at being asked some shrewd questions about phrasing in the concerto of the evening...
...Victory" Miss Fields plays the part of a young pianist with a travelling girls' orchestra doing a flock of one-nighters in the Dutch East Indies. To avoid the advances of the male conductor she runs away with Fredric March, to his private island in the Java Sea, only to become involved in a plot which threatens both their lives--a plot made all the more evil in that it comes from the warped mind of a jaded soldier of fortune (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) and his knife-throwing lieutenant (Jerome Cowan...
Another surprise of The Great Lie is Mary Astor, in another comeback. This time, in a tight shingle bob, she is back with a bang as Sandra Kovac, a temperamental concert pianist* with a touch of siren. The overtones of her villainous role begin to sound, sometimes a little nasally, from the time she snatches Maggie's (Bette Davis) rollicking, playboy sweetheart, Pete (George Brent), and marries him in an alcoholic spree. When it is discovered that they have to do it again because Sandra got her divorce decree dates mixed, Maggie snatches Pete back, this time salting...
...have Pete's baby after he is believed dead in an airplane crash in Brazil. The women have made a deal: Maggie to get Sandra's baby, Sandra to get a trust fund. It takes all Maggie's bullying, pampering, coercion to get the spoiled pianist to produce the baby. When the baby is finally born, Maggie subsides on the moonlit porch outside the house with all the apparent relief of an anguished father...