Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mishap at the airport occurred when Cinemactor Hoot Gibson's plane cracked up as he rounded a pylon. He was not badly hurt. Chicago had hard luck. It had counted on Balbo's armada and the Spanish Flyers Barberan & Collar (TIME. June 29, July 3) to lend tone to the opening. But Balbo was in Amsterdam and the Spaniards were dead in Mexico. Then a rainstorm cancelled the Sunday program. Before a capacity crowd next day Johnny Livingston, credited with winning more races than any other living pilot, added $2.250 to his two-year total...
...Dresden critics were not vexed that Strauss had returned to tunefulness. They have long ceased expecting any more daring and original music from the composer of Elektra and the tone-poems. Conducting the premiere was an illegitimate Habsburg, Clemens Krauss, instead of Hitler-ousted Fritz Busch...
...grilling questions. Ironically the presses of Frog Chief Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. the Fatherland's newspaper tycoon who made World news fortnight ago by demanding the return to Germany of her pre-War colonies by the London Conference (see p. 17). were obliged to print with an approving tone last week that "The Chancellor received Dr. Hugenberg tonight with no others present and explained to him the reasons for the Battle Ring's suppression...
...whole situation he was past feeling such thrusts as the one last week published in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung: "The great musician, with incorruptible ears ever mistrustfully and pedantically intent on the last sixteenth note, has heard out of the mighty orchestra that is Germany only the discordant tone." The National Socialist Militant League for German Culture said: "As Germans we are convinced that artistically adequate interpreters of the works of Wagner will be found." Frau Wagner hastily announced that Composer Richard Strauss will conduct the opening Parsifal. Who else will be found is hard to guess...
...really run the Drake. An assiduously bohemian gentleman in a flowing black tie, he lives in a famed pink house on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wilmette. His particular joys are a ship-cabin taproom and a handsome table that sinks through the floor. Ben Marshall lightened the tone of the Drake, installed an oyster bar, started serving 50? buffet lunches and $1 buffet Thursday night dinners which were jammed all last winter. It was also Ben Marshall & friends who, under a lease from Metropolitan Life, reopened the Blackstone last month. A quiet, palm-cluttered, expensive place, where total...