Word: vite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plus vite, Maestro, plus vite! Je ne suis pas malade." Nine-year-old Ruth Slenczynski was rehearsing with the Symphony in San Francisco, her home city, and the tempo taken by Conductor Bernardino Molinari, 54, displeased her. Molinari kept his temper at rehearsal but last week's performance was too much for him. The Concerto, Beethoven's First, had ended and he had left the stage. But not little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string...
Modern architecture is not confined to New York. The new style stressing the horizontal line in low two-story residential buildings with great rectangular areas of cement and glass, has materialized in a large homestead development in Vite Park, Cleveland, where the New York architects, Clauss and Daub have made a venture. An art Guild Hall in Darien, Connecticut, is an example of the latest developments carried out on a large scale. In Berlin, prominent residences are done in the chaste modern style. In Soviet Russia, and near Frankfurt, simple modern tenements are housing poor people...