Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly charitable to dwell on the weak-kneed humorous side, however, in an operetta so thoroughly dependent on its score as is this one. Twenty-three musical numbers, most of them of the hearty tone in which a good chorus outdoes itself, more than balance the antiquated comedy. The vocal ability of the cast is wholly satisfactory: two former members of grand opera companies, Lorna Doone Jackson and Greek Evans, are outstanding. Miss Jackson, in the graceful part of Allan-a-Dale, sings the too familiar "Oh Promise Me", and "The Bells of St. Swithins", with charm and a certain...
...results which might be involved in records' selling at such a price that caused the wonderment last week. Thinner in tone than most 75-cent records, they are vastly superior to cheap ones hitherto issued. They will play many times without sounding worn. They can be dropped without disaster. A new Durium record will be issued each week, one played by a leading Broadway orchestra and chosen as "hit of the week" by a jury composed of Producer Florenz Ziegfeld, Comedian Eddie Cantor and Bandman Vincent Lopez...
...order to avoid the coated, glossy papers which disturb the eyes but which are well adapted to half-tone reproduction, FORTUNE'S photographs are reproduced by the "Intaglio" process-the reverse of ordinary half-tone printing-which works well with heavy, glossless papers. The type used is a reproduction by the English Monotype Co. of the letters designed by the 18th Century craftsman Baskerville. His delicate feat was to modernize and clarify the types which then existed. FORTUNE'S letter has none of the condensation and "meanness" of later type faces...
...keenest resentment felt by the CRIMSON, it seems, was to the informal tone of the letter. It may have been a mistake to address in this way a Harvard undergraduate, jealous of his natural right to flunk out of college. He immediately suspects that there is a hidden significance--to be dreaded--as the CRIMSON has shown. Perhaps Professor Coolidge would have done better to make the letter coldly formal. That the CRIMSON took the attitude it did is an indication of the way any attempt to promote informality between the student body and the faculty, in the Houses...
...noted the inevitable change when he came on stage carrying a full-sized violin. The chubby legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black one. But when he played Beethoven's D Major Sonata he showed increased technical skill, broader and warmer tone, more mature style. Even more amazing was the manner in which he accomplished a hazardous Bach sonata unaccompanied. His audience cheered loudly and many who had transferred his title of "greatest wunderkind" to the startling and even younger violinist Ruggiero Ricci (TIME, Dec. 9) at once restored it to Yehudi...