Word: toning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Holmdel attracted some 6,000 clansmen dressed in kilts and plaids. Main event of the day, as usual, was the piping contest. Contestants were judged on points, 100 being regarded as a perfect score. Twenty-five of the hundred points were allowed for time, 25 for tone, 50 for execution (the technique of trills and capers with which every good piper decks out the tune he is playing). If a piper missed a melodic trick, or if he allowed his reed to "choke" (stop vibrating for lack of air), he was docked a point...
...kinds of people give Hollywood the air, but seldom cinemactors. Once in a while a Frances Farmer or Sylvia Sidney has sneaked away to Broadway, without shutting the studio door behind her. But last week Cinemactor Franchot Tone (Three Comrades, They Gave Him a Gun) loudly announced that he was through with "the long hours, the boredom and all the rest" of Hollywood, was going back to Broadway...
Three Loves Has Nancy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). As a Southern chit whose sweetheart has failed to turn up on their wedding day, Janet Gaynor invades New York to bowl over those pillars of penthouse society, Franchot Tone and Robert Montgomery, with naive charm best exemplified when she says grace in a night club...
Will you congratulate your Radio Editor for me on his delightfully apt descriptive phrase in TIME, Aug. 22, concerning News Commentator Boake Carter-''cloaking his accounts of daily events in a tone of dark menace." The lack of such a phrase to fit Mr. Carter's dramatic news-rendering has saddened me for years...
...Atlantic Monthly-* retain the form and flavor of the old literary magazine. For their adherence to tradition, their circulations have stagnated while others in the group gained new readers by compromise. Scribner's, now published by Harlan Logan, has become bigger in form, brighter in tone. The American Mercury, never a group member in good standing, has achieved new fame as a pocket-size mouthpiece of reaction...