Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished his first pair of concerts with the month-old Berkshire Music Center School Orchestra at Lenox, Mass., salvos of applause told him he had succeeded. Critics wired Manhattan newspapers: ". . challenged favorable comparison with the playing of a first-class metropolitan orchestra in its best form"; "a control of tone and dynamics worthy of any major orchestra...
...roof off in the process. But you don't mind the plaster falling all around you. Not when Davison plays cornet out of the side of his mouth, with's wonderful husky flavor like Berigan or Spanier. Not when PeeWee chortles his notes sometimes with an amazingly dirty tone and sometimes with a tone like molten silver. Not when Gene Schracder bangs out a fine barrel-house piano...
...typical U.S. success story (janitor's son to national hero), and Gary Cooper plays it with likable restraint. The film is somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic, but the facts stick reasonably close to Gehrig's life. The tone is entirely faithful. Gehrig had a stubborn vigor, a fine sense of sportsmanship, an honest belief in the copybook maxims. Cinemactor Cooper manages to suggest these qualities by being his shy, loping, American self. Cooper's right-handedness faced Hollywood with an appalling problem (Gehrig was a lefty). It was solved by having Cooper bowl, punch a bag, throw pebbles...
Married. Cinemactress Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille le Sueur), 34, former wife of Cinemactors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Franchot Tone; and Cinemactor Phillip Terry (real name: Frederick H. Kormann), 33, at Hidden Valley Ranch near Ventura, Calif...
Over the first five-week block of exercises this summer, the classes have worked up from a minimum dosage toward a maximum, aiming to produce enough ability to pass these tests and tone up the entire muscular systems of the students. After the present layoff for examinations, the remaining part of the summer conditioning will pick up where the first block ended and continue to grow more grueling...