Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VICTOR M. SHAPIRO...
...assassination of Tsar Nicholas was a terrible shock to him, and he felt that Clemenceau was endangering the monarchical principle by dethroning the princes of Central Europe. Suspecting slights, he felt that Foch showed wretched taste by remarking that he had gone to Italy to rescue "poor King Victor Emmanuel by the skin of his teeth." Once he told his aide-de-camp, as they started for a celebration, that there would be no crowd, since his subjects did not like him. The crowd was large, but when the aide tried to cheer Albert by calling attention...
...sang at London's Covent Garden before Queen Mary last month (TIME. June 24). Her voice which, in Columbia's recording of it, sounds better than any other in the cinema, is as good as usual. Her talent for light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo croaks so amiably that he may hereafter head Hollywood's oversized roster of dialect leading men. Best sounds: the Love Duet, from Act I of La Boheme, in which Michael Bartlett outsings Miss Moore...
ASCAP's chief lawyer is smart Nathan Burkan, friend of the late Victor Herbert, who founded the Society in 1914. Herbert's aim was to prevent song-pirating in theatres and restaurants. Most songwriters he knew were too indigent or too careless to look out for their own pocketbooks. A big organization was needed to bargain, do the necessary detective work. When Radio appeared and popular sheet-music sales suddenly slumped some 75%, ASCAP was ready for action...
Lawyer Burkan, born 55 years ago in Rumania, can become as impassioned over songs and songwriters as he was when he lately pleaded for the maternal rights of Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt. Because Victor Herbert was his friend, the ASCAP cause became so dear to his heart that he served it for seven years (1914-21) without pay. Competition between songs is absurd, according to ASCAP and its shrewdly sentimental lawyer. "A person desiring to hear 'Mother Machree,' " says Mr. Burkan, "is not satisfied with and will not accept a rendition of 'A Kiss in the Dark...