Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to bring it up to the standard of his New York Philharmonic Symphony. One story was that Toscanini, defying precedent, placed the song contest sequence in the last act of Die Meistersinger to the right of the stage, justified his decision by referring to Wagner's original score. Reminded that Widow Wagner had always done it the other way around at Bayreuth, Toscanini snarled: "Oh, mama was not so clever as papa...
...dropped from its belly a thin, whirling column which touched the dark water, churned up a fountain of spray. This towering waterspout, more than 3,000 ft. high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans of calcium carbide, flung one 300 yd. against the side of a coal tower...
...England: the Davis Cup, for the fourth successive year, when, with the score two matches all, dashing Fred Perry beat Australia's Jack Crawford, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; at Wimbledon...
...score of pictures produced last season Mr. Kennedy found that "camera work began on the average 20 days after the starting date set." On 14 features the cost of such delays in terms of idle artists' salaries alone amounted to $23,000 each. On one picture no less than 19 writers were engaged in a desperate attempt to express an inarticulate producer's ideas. Nearly one-half of Paramount's total studio overhead of $5,500,000 last year represented provisions for losses on stories and scenarios later abandoned and artists' salaries for idle and excessive...
Back for another run last week was that familiar U. S. drama concerning joy in the market place and despair on the farm. While drought withered crops and pastures in a score of states, the nation's commodity markets staged the most exciting show since the great drought of 1934. A large part of the entire U. S. spring wheat crop was but worthless stubble. Winter wheat on the other hand had already been mostly harvested. Early in June the price of wheat was less than 85? per bu. Last week it sold as high as $1.10. In corn...