Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still a shrewd political opportunist. Popularly supposed to telephone the White House before casting a vote, he has voted for: Emergency banking legislation, legalizing 3.2 beer (he was a Dry favorite in 1924), 25? limitation on veterans' pension cuts (1933): Gold Restriction Act, Bankhead Cotton Act (1934); Wagner Act (1935); Wagner Housing Act, Neutrality Act, taxation of Federal tax exempt securities, Naval expansion, recommitting the President's Court Bill (1937); Relief Bill, Reorganization, more Federal judges...
Arturo Toscanini (Thurs. 12:05 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts a specially assembled Swiss orchestra at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake of Lucerne, in Richard Wagner's A Siegfried Idyll, (12:30 p.m., NBC-Red) in Beethoven's Second Symphony...
...Walküre (Sat. 11 a.m., NBC-Blue). Part of Act I by short wave from the Bayreuth Wagner Festival...
Favorite Ravinia composers proved to be Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Franck, Bach, Sibelius-in that order. This suggested nothing new to the committee, since Wagner, Brahms and Beethoven were most frequently played at Ravinia this summer. Only 4% were bored by any one number, only 8% enjoyed one just moderately. The rest enjoyed everything greatly, except for five people who were bored by a whole program, ten by half of a program. One person asked for a special number next summer-"Roosevelt's Funeral March." The committee decided to look elsewhere than in questionnaires for program ideas...
...cinema industry is full of exhibitionists. Consequently, before any picture starts, audiences are compelled to sit through several minutes of a tedious visual roll call which includes practically everyone connected with the enterprise, from the carpenter who made the sets to the musician who rewrote Wagner's overture to Tannhauser, and omits only the banker who put up the money. Because cinemaddicts pay little attention to this list except to deplore it, they entertain vague notions, that moving pictures are either: 1) made haphazard by a collection of overpaid addleheads who speak only a few words of English...