Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston University made a nice distinction between radio and cinema arts: to 20th Century-Fox's Spyros P. Skouras and J. Arthur Rank's J. Arthur Rank went honorary doctorates of laws; to RCA's David Sarnoff an honorary doctorate of commercial science...
Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...
...wonder, then, that "Don Giovanni" has earned its rank as first among operas. Fritz Busch, another grand old name around the Met, did a magnificent job with his orchestra. Particularly commendable was his handling of the dance scene in Act II, when three small on-stage orchestras are playing a waltz, a gavotte, and a minuet, all combined with the pit orchestra in an ingenious contrapuntal pattern. Opera orchestras are not always as skillful as they might be, but this week has shown no deficiencies along that line...
Lord Inverchapel was introduced by President Conant, who was then awarded the rank of Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his contribution to "scientific discovery during...
Kingston, who holds major's rank, served 45 months in the Navy's anti-submarine campaign in the Caribbean during...