Word: ratings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Council, a new branch of the nonprofit New England Opera Theatre, will hand out cut-rate tickets to the Theatre's operas and sponsor free "piano lectures" by Boris Goldovsky who has sparked the movement...
...accuse the British of playing their old game -trying to interfere, without being responsibly involved, in the Continent's destiny. Thinking Frenchmen understand Britain's hesitations. They realize that it is asking a lot of Britain to tie her recovering economy to France's, and to rate the defense of Strasbourg as important as the defense of Dover. Still, they believe that, in order to achieve European union, the British must take military and economic risks, i.e., gamble on the hope that the French will somehow pull through...
...Porter is a loyal patron of his own art because, after writing the songs for 22 shows and nine movies, he is still just a little stagestruck. He also combines genuine modesty about his work with an amateur's enthusiasm for hearing it played and sung by first-rate professionals. At the opening performance of Kiss Me, Kate four weeks ago, he turned up in evening dress and settled himself happily down front in the midst of his large, glittering party. He was the picture of relaxed enjoyment, and a sight to amaze his fellow composers and authors...
...facile workman, he is cheerfully accommodating when he has to turn out a new number overnight because an old one has been dropped from a show. But unlike most composers and authors, he refuses to lower his own high royalty rate (5% of gross receipts) when a show has begun to slump at the box office. A song generally takes shape in his head before he plays it or puts a word on paper, and a glazed look of creation may come over his face at any time of day or night-and at any place on earth...
...Houses. The next year, brother Alfred designed a 25 by 30 two-bedroom bungalow to rent for $65 a month. These went over so well that the Levitts bought a 1,000-acre potato farm near Hempstead, L.I., named it Levittown, and started building houses on it at the rate of 150 a week. The houses were neat and trim but so much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population...