Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creaky propaganda, too apparent in many epics of social struggle, is absent. As a result the picture possesses a dignity and artistic sincerity not often met with. Mr. O'Sullivan as the young patriot and Miss O'Connor as his fiancee are outstanding. The quality of the photography and sound lag a little behind that of the acting, but these can be learned from Hollywood, while fine acting cannot...
Since Bach's time the organ has grown out of all knowledge. Modern organs, used in cinema palaces as well as in churches, can reproduce the sound of an entire orchestra, can imitate anything from a train whistle to cathedral chimes. By pulling and pushing little buttons, modern organists can produce tremulous vox humana, whooshing swell-effects, can make their gigantic instruments do everything but prance up & down the aisles. Some organists love to put a modern organ through its tricks; others sigh for the good old days when an organ was just an organ, point nostalgically...
...electrically controlled instruments will bring about a musical golden age. In a recent book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...
...Duchess Caracciolo. Later on Blanche knew the great houses of London, and pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust of Mary Hunter he praised her beauty, kissed her hand "a little too greedily." When she told Blanche of Rodin's excitement when they were alone in his studio, "I reminded her," he says, "of J. Dominique Ingres...
...Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington last month was for easier credit. Lately the Senate Banking & Currency Committee has been studying ways of providing it. Last week, while a crowd of small businessmen were reiterating their need before the committee, two Government officials appeared, one with the first sound analysis of the problem, the other with a bold remedy...