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...grasp on a single hearing. If in Vienna Composer Schonberg was listening he perhaps resented such homely praise. He started Gnrrelieder when he was 26 (he is 57 now), when he was deeply impressed with Wagner's harmonic combinations, Wagner's use of Leitmotifs. Inspired by Wag ner, he wrote music of stirring beauty. But most of his later, more original works have struck laymen as hideous and obscure. They have had a certain technical interest in that they have grown out of extensive experiments with chromatics and the twelve-tone scale. They illustrate new elaborately propounded principles...
Another suffer from the ban is the merry wag who used to stand in line in order to pass a jest with the president. Mr. Hoover's term has not been prolific of this form of humor, but in the legendary days of prosperity, the impassive figure of Mr. Coolidge seemed to tempt the amateur will Rogers continually. The newspaper did not dignify these events with print, but they nevertheless had their evanescent fame. One inspired youth waited for half an hour in the procession in order to confront the outstretched hand of the president with lifted eyebrows...
Wall Street wisecrackers had a merry time last week, chortling over some wag's remark that "next we will hear of the failure of the Gloucester fishing bank." But in seaside Gloucester, where an ill wind is one which comes from the big Le Pages glue factory, nobody saw anything comical in that remark last week. For Gloucester's oldest bank, the Gloucester National, failed to open its doors, freezing fast more than $1,000,000 of good Gloucester cash. Even in old New England Gloucester National was a hoary insitution in its own right. When...
...other words, the undergraduate himself is beginning to put football in its place. If it over becomes fashionable for him to lose entire interest in the doings of the so-called 'Varsity in favor of personal participation in a slightly less strenuous adaptation, the game will cease to wag and the college and public hysteria will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss...
...three days to see it. Each unit would run a week and it would take three weeks to see it. Not until ten days before production was the matter definitely cleared: the trilogy would run continuously with an hour's intermission for dinner, would last five hours. One wag remarked, "We won't go home until Mourning Becomes Electra." Admission...