Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seat. For a few weeks the record price of a New York Stock Exchange seat stood at $175,000 (TIME, Dec. 20). Then one day last week $180,000 was paid; and the next...
...Passed, without a record vote, the independent offices appropriation bill of $512,901,000, providing for the salaries and expenses of the President and Vice President, the Shipping Board, the Veterans' Bureau, the Interstate Commerce Commission, etc. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Broadway. It is also to be seen in Philadelphia, in Chicago, in Fort Smith, Ark., in Pueblo, Col., in Augusta, Me., and in Sydney, Australia. Next April an eighth company opens in London. Last week the Manhattan company, with its 2,000th performance, equaled the world's record for consecutive performances.* Abie's Irish Rose has run for four years and eight months on Broadway, has been seen there by 1,750,000 people, has earned there gross receipts of $3,000,000. The total gross. receipts from the play, including the road companies, playing...
...Whatever of Strauss's "last works" were meant by Critic Riesmann, there is a very substantial achievement on record, the dates of success in which carry on steadily to the present. Strauss is distinguished in at least four fields of music. Though his early compositions were not remarkable, he was even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir...
...BIRDS-Diary of an Unknown Aviator-Doran ($3.50).* A glossy finish is not among this chronicle's properties. Not for effect but for grim, humorous, human record, and probably for relief, did the author set down in airmen's vernacular daily events and sensations from the day he sailed from Halifax to the eve of his death behind Germany's lines. Nor is it a philosopher's diary, but the blunt journal of a rather tough, inarticulate "war bird." He "laughs off" the emotion stirred in him by a full moon at sea, by guessing...