Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Curtiss James owns a famous beard and more railroad securities than any man in the U. S. Last week this second possession was substantially cut when the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a reorganization plan for Western Pacific R. R. Co. writing off all its capital stock; at last reports Mr. James through various holding companies owned 40% of the stock, an investment with a par value of about...
...Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar, you will." A bright, attractive Gilbert & Sullivan crazy quilt, Knights of Song fails to be anything more because it does not treat its subjects as they invariably treated theirs : with style. The scenes from Pinafore and The Mikado are performed with a second-rate stock company's fatal excess of enthusiasm. The picture of Queen Victoria has none of Gilbert & Sullivan's crushing dead-pan mockery of pomp & circumstance. Only Actor Bruce knows the secret, plays Gilbert with a polished griffness that the old boy himself would have acknowledged with...
Last spring, as the New Friends of Music concluded their second successful season without benefit of Park Avenue patronage, Ira Hirschmann announced, for the season of 1938-39, that the usual array of chamber-music events would be augmented by 1) a brand-new, 36-man chamber orchestra, and 2) a conductor: Fritz Stiedry of Vienna's Volksoper and Leningrad's Philharmonic...
...from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
...pictures. Finally Rudy Vallee gave him a part on his program. Burns was a hit and his income thereafter zoomed. As estimated for tax collectors, it was $1,500 in 1934, $9,000 in 1935, $100,000 in 1936 and $400,000 last year, when he not only played second leads in Paramount pictures but shared top honors with Bing Crosby on Kraft Cheese broadcasts and wrote syndicated articles for 240 U. S. papers...