Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ashurst on public speaking: "A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information." On John Garner: "You play a straight oftener than almost any other man I know." On consistency: "But there never has been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency." On himself: "I suffer from cacoethes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, and from vanity . . . and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics. ... I am pachydermatous. ... I am a veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano on behalf of Democratic principles...
...impossible to make a good picture about a great musical celebrity. Choosing one of the greatest, 38-year-old Violinist Jascha Heifetz, Producer Samuel ("The Touch") Goldwyn provided the most obvious touch of all: Heifetz as himself, a sombre, undemonstrative young man with a fiddle which he plays as well as anyone in the world can play one. Instead of the story which eventually killed operatic pictures-plucking a well-known star off the Metropolitan stage, dousing him in tribulations, and then laboriously and romantically putting him back in the Met-They Shall Have Music takes Heifetz and his fame...
When the saving notion of a music-school background came to Goldwyn, he turned it over to Scenarists Irmgard von Cube and John Howard Lawson. For another $30,000 Heifetz consented to return to Hollywood for a few necessary scenes. Goldwyn feared more trouble getting Virtuoso Heifetz to play to the accompaniment of his juvenile orchestra, 45 gifted Los Angeles protégés of philanthropic University of Southern California Professor Peter Meremblum. But when Heifetz heard the kids on the set valiantly attacking the Barber of Seville overture, he acted just as Producer Goldwyn hoped he would, grabbed...
...Riggs, noisily objecting to the heaviness of the long-haired ball after it becomes grass-stained and moist. United States Lawn Tennis Association officials, ruefully watching their top-notchers eliminated in the early rounds, pondered using a special ball for future grass-court tournaments, retaining the fuzz ball for play on clay and concrete, where its heavy nap is no hindrance...
...lock and careless clothes sometimes make people take him for a clerk in a side-street seed store. Actually, he is the inventor of a naval war game which the Naval War College at Newport, R. I. rates more efficient than its own, and which Landlubber Pratt and enthusiasts play weekly on the floor of his big Manhattan studio. Between battles, Player Pratt steals time to author fat volumes whose swingtime style, alternating with simple, forceful exposition, make history's dull spots lively, its blind spots clear to many a layman. If, as some charge, he prefers the exciting...