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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chronological order, and the history of "jazz" is traced from its noisy pre-war origins, down to the sophisticated swing of today. Happiness, pathos, sentimentality, escapism, the emotions that characterized the years are all there, woven into a curious unity by a composer who has always written for the rank and file. It is pleasant to record that since the picture was first released, the new compositions it contains have also been added to Mr. Berlin's success...
...Connecticut Nutmeg, of which Broun is one-tenth owner-editor, had hired a non-union reporter. Next week, from his regular page in the New Republic, President Broun heatedly denied he had anything to do with hiring, pointed out that the reporter had immediately joined the Guild, scolded Guild rank-&-filer Pegler for not coming to meetings more often, announced it was the end of their beautiful friendship...
...kind in the U.S., some said in the world. Although it has been rivaled in recent years by at least two other U.S. orchestras,* it has held its place fairly steadily for more than half a century. Only once in its history did it fall behind the front rank, and that was when its greatest conductor, razor-faced, German-born Karl Muck, was charged with espionage by New England patrioteers and interned during the World...
...hurricane, shivered through the last scenes of Big Blow when a Florida hurricane whistled and tore across the stage, left it in darkness, crumpled a huge revival tent like a paper bag. As exciting as superb sound effects (lent by Samuel Goldwyn) could make it, the big blow should rank among the season's tensest moments of "theatre...
Green's opposition to the astonishing success of the C. I. O. invasion of mass production industries can be explained by two things, he said: one, he is too far removed from the point of view of rank and file labor; two, he is conditioned by his income, which puts him in the upper middle class bracket...