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...Masterpiece was commissioned by Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, an up-&-coming outfit spark plugged by an energetic socialite, Mrs. Clarence A. Warden. The Academy paid Composer Nordoff all it could afford-$200-for 25 minutes of music, and he threw in a dozen extra minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with...
There were two hangings at Pentonville Prison last week, but the Pentonville bell did not toll, the chief warden did not hoist a black flag to the prison masthead. Just curt sheriff's and coroner's notes pinned on the prison door told of the death by hanging of Jose Waldberg, 25, and Karl Heinrich Meier, 24. Their only distinction: being the first enemy spies to be executed in Great Britain during...
...America's four million unemployed young people "the sense of pride in fruitful work." Consequently the majority of the contributors to "American Youth" see the necessity for some form of voluntary work camp programe--possibly an enlarged C.C.C. with "a reputation as a man factory, not as a mere warden of sub marginal youth...
Baxter's letters are eloquent and solemn, might have been written 50 years ago. He loves to write of ancient monuments, of white-haired workmen pondering on Britain's mighty past. For spice he tells such genteel stories as the one about the airraid warden. (Warden: "There's a chink showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill...
...donning such lavish haberdashery as forest-green gabardine riding costumes, bows to no stickler for technical accuracy. A thousand volumes were probed in research for North West Mounted Police. A "mounty" was imported to drill a squadron of extras. A forest of 400 pine trees, requiring a State fire warden, converted six acres of the Paramount lot into rugged backwoods. This earnest devotion to accuracy left little time for comedy, suspense and other standbys of good swashbuckling melodrama...