Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even the railroads can save the co-feature, "Let Freedom Ring," for Nelson Eddy and Crew can't even reach the standards that put over "Dodge City" and "Union Pacific." Nelson Eddy is given a fine build up as the tough hombre who K. O.'s Victor McLaglen and drinks every member of the graduating class of the Harvard Law School under the table with case...
...Dream Highway (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). This meant that farmers in Somerset County, who do spare-time work on the roads for extra cash, had to join the union and pay $15 initiation fees in order to get jobs. Six-foot, two-inch Farmer Victor Glessner organized his fellows, smashed the union's county headquarters, ran two organizers away, had another indicted for waving a pistol at protesting ruralites. Having effectively opened the closed shop, Farmer Glessner & friends then organized the Somerset County Independents, vowed to keep the job closed to unions...
Beethoven: Symphony No. I and Brahms: Tragic Overture (B. B. C. Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor: 10 sides...
Schumann: Sonata in A Minor, Op. 105, for Violin and Piano (Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin; Victor: 4 sides). A slight, lyric, late Schumann sonata, superbly performed...
Oddities-of-the-month: Famed Guitarist Phil Lang's band v. Mozart on Counterpoint a la Mode (Brunswick); Joan Crawford, recorded for the first time, singing I'm In Love with the Honorable Mr. So and So (Victor...