Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which J. Stalin lives, and the Red Square. They were all ready to march in and cheer as soon as the Soviet Supreme Court should hand down its batch of death sentences in the Second Old Bolsheviks' Trial (TIME, Feb.1), and the waiting Moscow crowd had plenty to talk about...
...with precise beat and knees that wobbled curiously but in accurate rhythm. The audience, cordial but not unrestrained, found Romeo & Juliet a sly, elusive projection of its subject, more lyric than Prokofieff's early works have been credited with being, but less so than the composer's talk of curves had suggested. This week Prokofieff conducts the St. Louis Symphony. After a visit to Boston for whose Symphony he composed Symphony No. 4, he will sail for France...
...Tchaikovsky ran a bigger risk than most. Just how queer he actually became was related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination- almost the last stand-of the Romantic Movement in music," was a Petersburg law student of 22 when he first became seriously interested...
Internal trouble in Japan rather than war may be the first storm to break in the Far East, said Professor G. N. Steiger of Simmons College in a talk yesterday afternoon at Brooks House before the Society of Harvard Dames. He devoted the first part of his address, entitled "Storm Signals in the Far East" to basic conditions in Russia, China, and Japan...
...hammy aroma clinging to the supporting cast, Mr. Arliss turns in one of his best performances in light comedy to date. The two juveniles who play at young love are typically English, laboring under the national delusion that the best way to put your lines across is to talk as rapidly and unintelligibly as possible. Arliss admirers will enjoy this picture notwithstanding...