Word: ti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese the art of music is distinctly old stuff. In 2600 B. C., when the skin-clad savages of Europe were tootling shinbone flutes and walloping tomtoms, China's cultured Emperor Huang-ti established a standard scale for all China's musical instruments. When the T'ang Dynasty passed out in 907 A. D., Chinese music declined somewhat. But cultivated Chinese have always regarded music as one of China's most important arts...
Last December a plump, middle-aged Mexican song writer, Maria Grever, lay bedridden with a serious face infection. Hypodermic injections by an attending physician made her feel as if her bed were tipping. Forced to meditate on this seasick idea, Tunesmith Grever evolved the title Ti-Pi-Tin, composed a tune to go with...
Bright-eyed Tunesmith Grever never expected her Spanish-style Ti-Pi-Tin to rival the Spanish-style waltz Ramona in popularity. She had long been known as a composer of some 450 Spanish ditties and more or less serious concert songs, had reached grandmotherhood without seeing any of them create a furor. But last week, as Ti-Pi-Tin reached its fourth consecutive week as Tin Pan Alley's top seller, Grandmother Grever began to challenge Tunesmith Wayne's record...
...leader in 1937. Last week as spring burgeoned, the Chinese people prepared to celebrate anew their Ching Ming or "Day of Spring Wind" Festival. The Nanking Government decided to invite various Chinese bigwigs on a nationalistic junket to the tomb at Chungpu of the legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed by rough & ready General Mao Tse-tung would wish to send a Red to kowtow before the dust of the late Emperor, dead these 4,532 years. But some Nanking bureaucrat dispatched an invitation, just in case...
Three and One (adapted from the French of Denys Amiel by Lewis Galan tière and John Houseman; William Harris Jr., producer). The fact that most young women have a practical, an intellectual and a physical side to their nature is the basis for this uncertain parable which was apparently meant to be a bedroom farce but emerged as a mystery play. A matronly ballerina named Lois Valois has had three sons by assorted fathers. Arthur is a banker, all he thinks about is money; Paul is a composer, all he thinks about is music; Charles is an athlete...