Word: subtlest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debussy: Preludes, Book I (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia: 14 sides). A sheaf of Impressionist Debussy's subtlest miniatures played by his best living interpreter...
Somewhere between the fancy counterfeits of fashion pictures and the buttocky satires of Reginald Marsh is the truth about the New York Working Girl's life & looks. Of her few sympathetic interpreters in art, the subtlest last week had an exhibition at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries...
...subtlest performer for Hill & Knowlton was George Ephraim Sokolsky, author, lecturer, industrial consultant. Some of Mr. Sokolsky's lecturing was done at "civic progress meetings" arranged and paid for by local employers but publicly sponsored by "neutral" groups. Since his return seven years ago from a varied journalistic career in the Far East, able, intelligent Publicist Sokolsky has become a one-man intellectual front for conservative capital. His principal outlets are a weekly syndicated column which appears on the editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association...
Three stories attempt more complex situations. In the subtlest of these. Return to Lavinia, a storekeeper returns from his honeymoon with a schoolteacher, reassures his mulatto housekeeper that she will always come first...
...vaguely hoping to recover Mr. Grant's most precious possession: the intercostal clavicle of a prehistoric brontosaurus. It enlists the services of such tried-and-true comedians as Charlie Ruggles, Walter Catlett, and May Robson, and includes every conceivable sort of comedy from the broadest slapstick to the subtlest incongruity. Largely through the efforts of Miss Hepburn, who has discovered a delightful flair for this sort of thing, but also through the cleverness of Mr. Grant, who plays the constantly thwarted zoologist to perfection, it succeeds in keeping the audience in an uproar for a solid hour and a half...