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...dissonances could kill-and be beamed 3,500 miles-the halls of Berchtesgaden would ring with Adolf Hitler's death yells. Last week the Albert Einstein of music, sad-eyed Composer Arnold Schönberg, took artistic revenue on the man who in 1933 swept him and his cryptic music from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revenge: a recitation based on the booming rhetoric of Byron's Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, with string orchestra accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic...
...system, first proposed eleven years ago by Dr. Frank Cecil Eve, consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, England, is based on a gentle, rhythmic rocking of the patient, instead of the pressure-and-release system worked out by Sir Edward Sharpey Sch...
...detachment office has information that a number of revolvers are to be issued to the Stat Sch for training purposes. As there are a few automatics on hand, this will enable the staff to instruct on two different hand guns...
...close of World War I, Europe's great musical culture suddenly began to express itself in what to many sounded like groans and cackles. Only a few oldsters such as Jean Sibelius, Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninoff, clung to the traditional sonorities. In Vienna dour Composer Arnold Schönberg led a whole school of younger men in what sounded to conventional ears like some weird insult. In Paris, Igor Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger and a group of Left-Bank revolutionists began imitating African tom-toms and hopefully setting restaurant menus to music. U.S. composers in the main followed...
...lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri de Beaumont. He became famous for his studies of nude ladies on bearskin rugs...