Word: pleasingness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warren William, a veritable Thoth with a moustache, plays the part of a young man graced with personal at- traction, a propensity to love, and a desire to reach the heights on someone's else endeavors. He rambles through his part with a rhythmic ease that is restful to watch...
The Saturday evening concert at Symphony Hall was a most pleasing two hours of unpretentious and gay music except, of course, for the fervent piece of Sir Edward Elgar. And oddly enough, all the composers whose operas were presented are dead except one.
"Oh The Pity Of It All"--Columbia recording. Enric Madriguera's polished orchestra has a very smooth and pleasing melody to work on. Helen Ward and Bub Burnch sing. The backing, "True" is good as a Fox Trot for dancing, but the tune is not very catchy.
John Charles Thomas has probably never realized that even singers should be ambassadors of good music. If publicity was what he desired, he could have donated the proceeds to a local institution, thus pleasing those who had spent time and money to come and hear him (TIME, Jan. 22).
In Germany, where Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels tries to make all news-organs play the same tune "like a great organ of many pipes," Organist Goebbels seemed unable to make up his mind about Roosevelt money, permitted a divergence of expression unprecedented since he...