Word: sax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to the Academicians but in spite of his inexperience, Berlioz developed theories of his own. He wrote scores which called for an incredible number of players. He combined instruments in ways that had never been done before. He even endorsed the mongrel saxophone which the instrument-maker, Adolphe Sax, had introduced into the clarinet family. An Irish actress. Harriet Smithson, came to Paris and Berlioz was fairly beside himself. After staging a suicide in her presence he persuaded her to marry him but the romance ended there. Marie Recio, a mediocre singer, accompanied him on his tour through Europe...
Daughter of the Dragon (Paramount) shows the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland) far less insidious than he seemed in the stories of Sax Rohmer, engaged in homicide on an ambitious scale but in a manner too placid to be awful. Brought to his deathbed early in the picture, he charges his daughter (Anna May Wong) to continue his program of extermination. This she attempts to do, in the case of a British aristocrat and his son, who falls in love with her. She is hindered by the ministrations of a Chinese detective, who loves her also but does...