Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alexander the Great was tickled by the philosopher's request, but it did not keep him from spending the rest of his short life elbowing others out of the best place in the sun. His romantic ambition drove him, leading victorious armies, from Macedonia up to the turgid Danube, across to storied Thebes, to Troy, down through Asia Minor to defeat Darius and his Persians, on to Egypt, to India...
This nucleus cannot, however, keep any Shakespeare play on Broadway for long; the rest is a matter of showmanship. Among Shakespeare's works, Hamlet clearly has an edge because its hero's fascinating, elusive character interests many more people than Shakespeare does. But in general-as Shakespeare productions of the past few seasons bear out-neither a play's fame, nor its subject-matter, nor its length, nor its cast proves very much...
Last week Arturo Toscanini, having finished off his first series of broadcasts with Radio City's NBC Symphony, hopped off to California for a rest. His place was taken by another little white-haired maestro, this time one unfamiliar to U. S. audiences. The new maestro, who had just defied bombs and mines on the S. S. Vulcama, for his chance to conduct the NBCers, was Belgium's No. i Conductor Désiré Defauw (pronounced Defoe). Driving the orchestra at top speed, with its cut-out open, through a broadcast of light French and Belgian pieces...
Radio got him first. In 1921 he went to WJZ, then merely a sort of cloister off a ladies' rest room of the Westinghouse factory in Newark. For $40 a week he sang, played the piano, operated the Ampico player-piano, announced, told bedtime stories, recited Uncle Wiggly, read the Sunday funnies. Since those days, many an NBC announcer has come & gone, but Milton Cross is still on the job, an NBC standby...
Last week Mrs. Sullivan's own collection of Cézannes, van Goghs, Toulouse-Lautrecs, Gauguins, Picassos, Derains, Modiglianis, Soutines and the rest was sold at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. It was the most important auction of modern art in a decade, and nearly every outstanding dealer and collector in the U. S. was there-except Mrs. Sullivan herself. Day before she had died quietly in her sleep...