Word: pressers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after the late Music Teacher Theodore Presser started his magazine in 1883 on a $250 stake. Etude had an impenetrable format, and articles with such titles as "The Great Composers' Love of Flowers." "Why Are Sharps Harder Than Flats?" and "Places That Don't Sound Right and What to Do with Them." The magazine was highly thought of by music teachers, who relied on it for hints on technique and for its advertisements suggesting graduation gifts ("A Very Attractive Lyre Design Pin-10K. solid gold, $1.25"). It was loathed by the thousands of rebellious children...
...thousands of music students, and still printing articles like "A Thought for the Piano Tuner," Etude by last fall was badly out of tune. Despite a peak circulation of 250,000 in 1919, Etude had been carried at a loss for some 30 years on the books of Presser's highbrow Bryn Mawr music publishing firm (owned since Presser's death in 1925 by the Presser Foundation, which also operates a home for aged music teachers...
...gedunk" soda fountain. The gleaming galley has most of the comforts of modern living, including an electric mixer, a potato peeler, a dishwasher, and a garbage grinder that should frustrate gulls and porpoises. Elsewhere on the ship are a 15-lb. washing machine and a steam dryer and presser...
When he was 24, Gonzalez moved to Chicago, went to night art school and worked as a daytime pants presser and railbed sweeper. He later went back to Mexico, where he taught art in public schools along with Covarrubias and Tamayo. His association with the Mexicans also had its influence on his work. Says Gonzalez: "We all came under the influence of Aztec art, Spanish baroque and Chinese and Japanese art . . . I am influenced by everybody...
Actress Michaels handles the title role in this inexpensive picture with vulgar assurance. Actor Egan is almost her tough match. The minor parts, especially the barkeep's wife (Evelyn Scott) and a lecherous pants-presser (Percy Helton), are also well attended to. Producer Clarence Greene and Director Russell Rouse, who also collaborated on a competent script, deserve high credit. Having decided to serve cheap whisky, they had the wit and the courage to serve it straight...