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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pierian had developed into a capable group of musicians, and critics were already writing favorable reports of their activities. The Orchestra then separated from the Pierian, and the later organization became a sort of godfather to the fledgling one. The Sodality assumed much the same role which it occupies today, that is as an honorary social society in charge of the administration and financing of the Orchestra. Male members of the Orchestra are usually admitted after one year of "faithful service...
...shocked and alarmed when they suggested it," said Kaiser. "I wanted to know what the SEC thought about this sort of thing." Eaton, he said, assured him that it was "not unusual," and a hasty telephone check with SEC verified it. Eaton thought that no more than 20,000 to 25,000 shares would have to be bought. Kaiser told him to go ahead. It took less than half an hour to fill the first order for 15,000 shares-but to Kaiser's surprise the market was not stabilized...
...bothers me deeply is why the practitioners of the art have failed, on the whole, to become truly creative artists but rather have been content, in the main, to remain little more than glassblowers, huffing and puffing and blowing up slender ideas-their own or others' -into some sort of shape for the screen. What has happened to fresh; honest, vital, original writing for the screen...
...Universal-International) is a cinemusical about a tent show. The show's supercarnival acts, which had a rich midway glamor on the Broadway stage, have only a cheap midway glare when filtered through the screen. But Song &-Danceman Donald O'Connor comes through brightly as a sort of low-glazed, hickory-cured Danny Kaye...
State of the Union (M-G-M). In Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse's Pulitzer Prize satire, a number of political animals (a presidential candidate, professional politician, lady publisher, big businessman, labor leader, etc.) were herded into a sort of literary abattoir. There they were bludgeoned with ridicule, skewered with wit and butchered with invective; the raw meat was flung to Broadway audiences who ate it up for almost two years. Finally, the whole delightful shambles was tossed (for a down payment of $300,000) to The Great Knacker, Hollywood...