Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before Richard Leo Simon and M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster formed a publishing firm in Manhattan a dozen years ago, nervous young Simon had been a salesman for Aeolian pianos, shrewd young Schuster a newshawk who played the violin for fun. Though they never play together, Publishers Simon & Schuster are both still impassioned amateurs of music. Lately it became evident that the duet, whose profitable puzzle-&-game volumes set the book-publishing business by its ears, was venturing into the stodgy realm of music publishing...
Last November "Essandess," as Simon & Schuster sign their chirrupy advertisements, came out with the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas newly edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel. Last January the firm hired a music editor, German-born Emil Hilb, who conducted the Denver Philharmonic in 1932-33. Last week Simon & Schuster published "Four Operatic Masterpieces"*-excerpts from Carmen, Faust, Tannhduser, II Trovatore, transcribed for players of average ability by Pianist Leopold Godowsky. Handsomely illustrated and containing notes on opera plots and composers, the venture, if it clears expenses, will belie Simon & Schuster's assertion that music publishing is for them no more...
WAKE UP AND LIVE !-Dorothea Brande -Simon & Schuster ($1.75). How the author transformed herself in two years from a hack into a bestseller, with the twelve rules that guided her and can help YOU to do likewise. Not as bad as it sounds...
...Mark, a bully; Johnny, a poet who is not a gentleman and is very self-conscious about it. Marius' bovine wife, Helga, feeds them all, pays little attention to their twitterings or shrieks. The colony is further complicated by the arrival of a young married couple, Lilly and Simon, who seem at first happily married. But Lilly, it rapidly turns out, is a schizophrenic : she splits up into three personalities, most potent of them being a nymphomaniac who frightens poor Simon to the edge of insanity...
Marius and Andrew meet but find each other uninteresting. Saul's catalytic presence throws everyone into frenzied activity. The disciples intrigue more furiously than ever; Simon looks paler every day; Andrew sits up till all hours writing "a really sincere" play. Saul falls in love with Lilly but casts her out when he finds what she is up to. The dying Marius, in a last effort to get away from his disciples and his own failure, gets Saul to promise he will take him to Africa. Andrew, unable to write a sincere play without being dull, drowns himself...