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...piano's keys that when a key is touched a code impression is recorded on a motor-driven music-roll. Thus the most idle vagaries, nuclei for many a major opus, may be preserved. Added feature is a portable keyboard superimposed on the piano keyboard (baby grand or upright) which mechanically and instantaneously transposes music into any desired key. Composing and transposing devices may be used together. A great boon should "Music Writer" be to the cinema industry. Heretofore composition for synchronized cinema has been a labor of weeks. With "Music Writer," two or three pianists may view...
...year, plus a studio, and three years of study in the American Academy at Rome) are always scholarly, conservative. Those which were announced last week to have captured the awards for 1930 were religious as well. William Marks Simpson Jr., the winning sculptor, made a youthful, upright image of St. Francis of Assisi benignly inspecting a bird. Salvatore De Maio, Prix-winning painter, achieved an interesting composition called The Complete Sacrifice, the figures of Christ, Mary and Mary Magdalene forming oblique patterns with the bars of the tilted cross from which Christ has just been removed...
...years ago he fell ill. Thorough in everything, he was thorough in his sicknesses. He had cirrhosis of the liver, heart failure and kidney trouble all at once. His eyes and teeth also went back on him. For weeks at a time he can only sleep upright in a chair, his great grey head resting on his arms. According to all the laws of medicine he should have died a year ago. Between attacks he continues to paint, portraits now. Modern critics, incidentally, prefer these to his murals. His peacocks, sharks, panthers and zebras were magnificently alive, but there were...
...appointed Joseph Ridgeway Grundy of Bristol, arch-lobbyist for the Tariff, active raiser of campaign funds. Long used to dictating to politicians though never before a large officeholder, Mr. Grundy greatly enjoyed his transition and soon regarded himself as the G. O. P. boss of the whole State. An upright Quaker, he scorned Boss Vare. Solidly intrenched with industrial interests, he did not worry about a few enemies he had made among women, fraternalists, volunteer firemen, and certain labor groups...
Rumor kept the country acutely Capone-conscious. Upright citizens vigorously protested the attention the U. S. Press was giving this disreputable Under-worldling. The Press, however, continued to swing its spotlight around in search of Capone, contending that he was news- worthy, that it was in the public interest to find and keep...