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George Antheil branded himself seven years ago as the most freakish of U. S. composers. He grew up in Trenton, N. J., went to Paris to live when he was 20. After six years he celebrated his homecoming by putting on in Manhattan his Ballet Mecanique with ten pianos, wind machines, an airplane propeller, assorted horns, whistles and bells. The critics' jeers drove him back to Paris. Lately he claimed that he had reformed. Helen Retires was to illustrate his conversion to melody. But basically most of its music seemed just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: More Helen | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Thus one night last week did an announcer at Newark's WOR preface a radio act put on by the Mount Rose Gin Distilling Co. of Trenton, N. J. Immediately thereafter a male trio called "The Sizzlers" burst into "Sweet Adeline." Mount Rose Gin was mentioned more than once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: WOR & Gin | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...Trenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...Trenton, N. J., Florence Denman, 53, sued Aaron Denman, 67, for separate maintenance, charged that he had bought her an automobile, then chained it to a beam in a barn so she could never use it, that he had not spoken to her since 1927, that he smeared grease on the kitchen floor after it had been scrubbed, that he refused to buy coal in winter, sat on the porch while she chopped firewood, took the bulbs out of the radio, gave away the family vegetables, hid the food in the garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 65, and Mary Macfadden; by each other; in Trenton, N. J. Mutual charges: misconduct. Publisher Macfadden further charged that his wife, ridiculing his gospel of physical culture, encouraged their six daughters to "smoke and drink in swanky speakeasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1933 | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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