Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pace of the whole performance, from the start of the Procession to the march up the Abbey's aisle, has been prodigiously slow, sedate, the cadence of Empire. King George breaks his tempo when, before being robed in the garments of state and beneath a canopy that screens him from nearly all, he whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing...
...list were those of Raymond Scott. This conscientious and well-schooled pianist-composer, heretofore unrecorded, began appearing on Columbia Broadcasting System's Saturday Night Swing sessions last January. Not swing musicians at all, since they are not free to improvise, the Scott Quintet does play in fox-trot tempo. What makes their music remarkable is that they play Scott's unconventional compositions, and play them with a finesse, variation and volume expected only of a 20-piece band. At present sold out is the one Scott record so far released to dealers, Twilight in Turkey and Minuet...
...thrice the wages of other workmen. In plants we visited the directors were all men of between 35 and 40. The average age of the workers was between 23 and 27. The best organization seemed to be in factories where the conveyor-belt system is in operation. The factory tempo is somewhat slower than in the United States. About a quarter of the workers in all factories we visited were women who appeared to be doing exactly the same kind of work as men. The youth of the Soviet workers and engineers and managers was striking. Laboratories are well developed...
...photographed slice of U. S. industrial history. Less effective is the overlong recital of the process by which John Meade comes to jilt his society sweetheart (Gail Patrick) by marriage with the humblest woman he can find (Francine Larrimore). At times patently uneasy with the camera's quiet tempo, Miss Larrimore on the whole does well in her first screening, especially when she gets a chance to turn on high-tension dramatics. Her best scene: telling John Meade why she has decided to visit a cabaret with her chauffeur (John Trent...
...Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace and jazz tempo...