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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This he set to music and retitled "Good Morrow! A simple carol for His Majesty's happy recovery." It was far from simple. Sir Edward Elgar's best known composition is "Pomp and Circumstance." It is a favorite cinema overture, its ponderous measures boom weekly from radio loud speakers...
...spiritual influence." During his lifetime he gave some $200,000 to develop Cornell's campus. This autumn, just before his death, the trustees renamed the waterfalls of Cascadilla Creek in his honor. Last week Trustee Sackett's will was probated. He bequeathed some $750,000 to be known in perpetuity as the Sackett Landscape Fund...
Thus did Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, a stranger to steel men, enter a business which was no less strange to him. Once in, he stayed in; acquired a controlling interest in many another steel company; created one of those vague but formidable entities known as an interest. Steel men, surveying the various steel companies included in the Eaton steel interests, began to predict a merger that would leave United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction...
Exploitation matter for the picture states that it was made at places in the desert where the temperature was "never less than 120°." It is too bad that this heat, or something, made Director Walter Summers, known for his competent war newsreels, mess up this opportunity. The characters are never properly identified; the flashbacks into their lives are jerky and incomplete. Best shot: the evangelist going crazy and running out into the desert...
...investigated afterward, discovered that the cabinet was a variety of the Theremin ether-wave instrument (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928, et seq.) being used as a regular, recognized member of the orchestra. The new instrument was made especially for Conductor Leopold Stokowski, called a Thereminophone and differed from the better known RCA Theremin in that its tone is controlled by a fingerboard (rather than by waves of the hand), its volume by a pedal. Carl Zeise, regular Philadelphia 'cellist who operates it, is one of several able Theremin soloists-among them Alexandra Stepanoff, who appeared recently in Chicago, George Goldberg...