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...Patriots (by Sidney Kingsley; produced by The Playwrights' Company and Rowland Stebbins) dramatizes the historic struggle between Jefferson and Hamilton-and does it vividly enough for Jefferson's ardent democracy (TIME, Feb. 1) to shimmer in the present as well as shine from the past. Covering the ten fateful years between 1790 and 1800-when the naked, squalling infant republic had no pacifier but a weary, aging George Washington-The Patriots shows his fervent Secretary of State and his fiery Secretary of the Treasury leaping at each other's throats in their completely opposed efforts to save...
...incomplete transparency and fibrous texture of his negatives gave all his prints a slightly fuzzy look. Retouching and darkroom development tricks were unknown. But despite all these drawbacks, Hill created pictures that rivaled the finest mezzotints, made cravats, lace collars and deep-lined faces shimmer before shadowy backgrounds in a variety of contrasted tones that rouse the envy of photographers whose film today is 100,000 times as sensitive...
Debussy: Nocturnes (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 8 sides). First complete U. S. recording of a shimmering Impressionist masterpiece. Conductor Stokowski gives it more fire than shimmer. Victor sound engineers record it magnificently...
Rippling down the long steel roller table in a shimmer of heat, it comes to the transfer table. If the strip is destined for such heavy duty as steel tanks, it is merely sheared into sections, left to cool. If it is to go into more specialized uses, such as automobile fenders, its processing has barely begun. Shooting down the roller table at 24 m.p.h., it plunges into a slot, is caught by a set of rollers in a circle and, in a red mist it coils itself into a spool, is deposited on a moving belt ready for "pickling...
...director, a "Precision Routine" in which the percussion section drummed on its shoes with rhythmic ingenuity to suggest a dance routine. Always an adroit orchestrator (he scored George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue}, Composer Grofe had come far from the time when he used to add melodic shimmer to such Whiteman numbers as the Song of India and Chansonette. Best non-Grofean work was a deeply-felt Negro Heaven of Otto Cesana. The whole concert pleased even pontifical old William James Henderson of the New York Sun, who unbent to write: "Mr. Grofe presents 'paper' music...