Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PAGANINI-KREISLER: CONCERTO No. 1 IN D MAJOR FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA-FIRST MOVEMENT (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Fritz Kreisler; Victor: 4 sides). Performing his own version of the Paganini movement, which he premiered in Chicago two seasons ago, 63-year-old Kreisler proves himself still the world's most ingratiating fiddler...
...author's. Given the job of killing many of his own best lines, Author Kober did so with purposeful objectivity. He also supplied new ones which were in many cases even better. Consequently, like an enlarged photograph which brings out virtues unsuspected in its smaller original, the cinema version of Having Wonderful Time is a kind of streamlined folk comedy, hilarious not because its characters are Jewish but because they are human...
...practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments as "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air." For several months he hammered away at a peaceful-plowshare version. Last fortnight he published it. The revised text...
Last winter it was discovered that Vincent Lopez, pudgy, decorous danceband leader, had been brooding long and heavily over the unsingableness of The Star-Spangled Banner. Suggested by Bandleader Lopez was a new version of his own, with its high notes pruned to fit the limitations of the average voice (TIME, Feb. 7). Bandleader Lopez' version, duly performed in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, caused very mild applause. But last week, as Congress was hurrying toward adjournment, publicity-loving Congressman Emanuel Celler (N. Y.) urged official acceptance of Lopez' "squeakless" anthem. Said Congressman Celler: "Why not enable everybody...
...depopulated planet would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...