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Many of these gray areas are abandoned or decaying. But some of Archie's working-class neighborhoods are holding their ground. Most of these were houses built from the 1890s to the 1920s, when chimney-studded industrial plants belched soot over entire neighborhoods. Blue-collar housing consisted of look-alike cottages or row houses. But after World War II, in their own dogged kind of urban renewal, more affluent workers began to alter their monotone dwellings. They painted them in pinks and greens, sheathed them in asbestos shingles, ersatz clapboard or fake stone and brick and punched outsized suburban...
...Mendelssohn and Bruch (G minor) violin concerti. However, his most recent accomplishment, a recording of Kreisler pieces and arrangements, shows he lacks good taste and ability in program selection. These Kreisler shorts have been encore pieces for violinistic virtuosos since they were first recorded by Kreisler in the mid-1920s. They are all repetitious, and a recital of 18 show-off compositions like this Mintz disc will bore the hell out of anyone unimpressed by virtuosity alone...
Though Kreisler plays his other pieces faster, with more articulation, and with less shmaltz than Mintz, the latter's Liebesleid--slow and sorrowful--has more appeal. On RCA Victrola's 1968 release of Kreisler "Souvenirs," recorded in the 1920s, the composer plays the piece with slides and portamentos at every place imaginable. Mintz plays important notes with vibrato and spirit without sliding. Directors might consider using the piece for a romantic movie scene. The choice of lovers will be irrelevant; the mood of the scene--an intense, despairing good-bye--will be the same...
...those Danburyites who have seen their city shift from farming to hatmaking to light industry without its essential character changing. And one emblem of constancy had always been the fair. Back in 1946, the fairground was taken over by a local man, John W. Leahy, who in the early 1920s transformed his machine shop into one of the largest oil and gas distributorships in the area. Leahy journeyed as far as London to buy some stock from a shareholder in the society that had run the fair since its founding. Once in control, the flamboyant Leahy rejuvenated the event, paving...
...roller-coaster 1920s were particularly bad times for small business. Economic growth gyrated wildly, but the overall trend was briskly upward. In 1922 the economy expanded at an extraordinary rate of nearly 16%, but business failures also leaped up, to 23,676 for the year, or 120 per 10,000 firms. In 1924 economic growth declined by .2%; and business failures eased back too, totaling 20,615 for the year. In 1929, the year of the Crash, the total stood at no more than 22,909, a modest decline from the previous year's 23,842. The worst year...