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Word: sedalia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human conscience. Quicksand sucks down the American; the Japanese hauls him out. When gangrene threatens the Japanese, the American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos of his homesickness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Beau Brummell: "Costume picture! Every time we play one, it's curtains from the start."-R. K., Sedalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Critics | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...happened, music was a passion with McNair Ilgenfritz. With an income from real-estate holdings in Sedalia, Mo., he was free to compose. When he was still in his 20s, he wrote a popular piece called The Hesitation Waltz for a dance that came along just after the Bunny Hug. As the years passed, he wrote (and published) dozens of songs and began to reach for the more ambitious forms of composition. In 1944 he submitted a pair of operas to the Met, one of them based on Racine's Phèdre, the other a one-acter from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where There's a Will... | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

When his Maple Leaf Rag (1899) made him independent, he quit the honky-tonk circuit and left Sedalia, Mo., a town revered by ragtimers as New Orleans is by the jazzbos, and set himself up as a respectable teacher in St. Louis. He turned out rags by the dozens (including Peacherine Rag and The Easy Winners), and even six serious etudes to help "amateur players" learn how to keep that steady beat with the left hand while syncopating off the beat with the right. His biggest ambition was to compose a ragtime opera. Before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King of the Ragtimers | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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