Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sonata she brought little grace. But for most of the afternoon young Ruth was in might-&-main mood, sweeping the keyboard with glittering arpeggios, pounding out tremendous chords. Knowing that she usually likes to keep on playing, hundreds of listeners rushed forward at the end of the program to watch the stubby flying fingers. But after two encores a lackey walked on stage, sternly closed the piano...
Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif, the biggest crowd (85,000) packed a stadium decorated with bunches of flowers to watch the game between Stanford and Alabama. Alabama's Halfback Millard (''Dixie") Howell gained 273 yd. His longest run (67 yd.) made one Alabama touchdown while his phenomenally accurate passes, mostly to End Don Hutson, paved the way to two more. Swamped by three touchdowns and a field goal in the second quarter, Stanford marched bravely to a touchdown in the third but still had no defense for the Alabama passes that scored again in the last. Alabama...
...newcomer to that small group of U. S. athletes for whom a stop watch is as conventional an accessory for public bathing as a pair of trunks, Flanagan last week was making what sportswriters call a "comeback'' at an age when many of his contemporaries are barely learning how-to swim. Son of a retired Miami butcher, Ralph Flanagan was discovered in 1926 at a newsboys' party, by Swimming Coach Steve Forsyth, who developed Katherine Rawls. By 1931, he had broken his first national record (1,650 yd. free style). He was on the Olympic team...
German comedian. His enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...back on vivid picture-music, announced a "return to Bach." Whether or not the placid Kapellmeister would have recognized Stravinsky as a colleague is a matter of grave dispute. Harsh critics say that Stravinsky changed his style because his rich ideas were spent. But modernists have continued to watch him closely, for even in his "classicism" his rules have been his own. He wrote Les Noces for percussion, pianos and chorus. For Oedipus Rex, his "operaoratorio," the Greek story was adapted by Frenchman Jean Cocteau, then translated into Latin. When Stokowski gave it in Philadelphia the soloists were represented...