Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pianist Templeton moved on to Manhattan. Manhattanites liked his improvisations on any theme that was tossed up to him. His musical satires* floored them completely. Stoop-shouldered, solemn Templeton would sit at the piano and reproduce the sound of a whole Wagnerian opera, pounding out brass chords, yodeling out-of-tune soprano arias and throaty German tenor recitatives. From Wagnerian opera he would turn to Italian opera, lieder singing, Gilbert & Sullivan, the bedlam inside a music conservatory. Last week Pianist Templeton brought his improvisations and caricatures to Carnegie Hall, where they formed the dessert of a program of more conventional...
...party he was asked to accompany Violinist Nathan Milstein. Asked if he knew the accompaniment to Lalo Symphonie Espagnole he said no, but the he would try it if somebody ran through once. While the 32-minute-long accompaniment was played, Templeton listened attentively, then played the whole thing from memory, made one mistake...
...Cincinnati's subway is ever to be used, it must build a loop through the Basin from its present downtown terminus. This would cost another $6,000,000, and the whole project would be handed to the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. for operation of its cars. The transaction would be without rent, which the company is nable to pay. Face to face with this apparently insoluble situation, a group of leading Cincinnatians resolved last week that something must be done about the city's hole-in-the-ground. Last week they met at the Sinton Hotel, organized...
...banking figures just as an accountant would analyze a corporation statement. Prime clues to a corporation's intrinsic soundness are such financial factors as its working capital position, its sales to inventory ratio, the quality of its so-called assets. The soundness of U. S. business as a whole is similarly reflected in the nation's banking figures...
...story, with domestic trimmings; but the director, realizing that his "mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side, and especially on the marital quarrels between the two leads. By so doing, he succeeded in making a successful whole; but the makers of "Going Places" were not equally clever. This film, burdened from the start by the presence of Dick Powell, takes itself seriously every now and then, and the result is very dull. In between the serious moments there is, however, some wonderful comedy, as, for example, when...