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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor announces that "in addition to his ability to play three-four tempos that American dance fans thoroughly enjoy, Wayne King's band is capable of real swing...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

These very qualities, however, are also responsible for the obtrusiveness of the burbles and crackles which sometimes come from the middle of the orchestra. Through we cannot be expected to enjoy sour notes, we certainly should try to modify the snap judgment that the unhappy musician who makes them belongs in a boiler factory...

Author: By L.c. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...life sentence for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing was commuted fortnight ago by Governor Culbert L. Olson, last week tried to get married to Josephine Rudolph, a WPA timekeeper. Then he discovered that, unless his civil rights are restored by a full pardon, marriage is something he cannot enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...exhibition. At 75, he is a cripple confined to his second-story bedroom in a gloomy, gaslit brownstone house on 57th Street. Eilshemius persists in sitting with his back to the window, his face turned away from the light. He shrills at visitors: "It's too late to enjoy my fame. I got bad legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Manhattan Mahatma | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Television hopes to do for art what radio has done for music: bring masterpieces to millions who could not otherwise enjoy them. Last week, with a rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Renaissance by Telecast | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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