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...before. Der Schwanendreher is a concerto for viola and small orchestra, based on traditional German folk tunes. In it Hindemith expanded a song called Among Hills and Valleys into a whole astonishing movement. Bassoon, clarinet, oboe, horn and solo viola made an intricate, lovely fugue out of The Little Bird on the Fence. Critics considered the concerto "work-manlike," "resourceful," "poetic," "often amusing," looked forward to hearing it again in New York this week...
...good, but the only one which seems to emerge from the level of distinguished composition-class work is "Another Country" by John M. Cunningham. Setting the Sciltan Mafia on an American water-front, it builds with almost unfailing crescendo, a sequence of extortion, intimidation and violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item, "I said my Penance" by Peul Clark, is a light, almost New-Yorkerish vignette of a Catholic college...
Most Hollywood badminton photographs exhibit it as an outdoor game. Actually, Hollywood is one of the few places where the vogue of badminton has taken root outdoors. Even there it belongs under cover, since the slightest breeze makes a badminton "bird" behave unpredictably. To offset this defect, Douglas Fairbanks has invented his own form of the game, with heavier bats and birds. Fairbanks badminton is named "Doug...
...grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh 80 grains. Best birds and bats are imported. Birds are made of fine-grained Spanish cork, covered with French kid, dressed in feathers from Czechoslovakian geese, whose high grease content makes their quills less breakable. Three birds, four bats...
...mile they climbed a great hogback of white cliffs, jagged peaks, huge caves and waterfalls. When the narrow road ended they left their car, tramped off into the brush. After a few miles, shouts went up as they saw what they had come to see-a monstrous black bird soaring far overhead, its white underwings flashing in the sun. In the same desolate spot they might have seen an identical sight 1,000,000 years ago. It was that Pleistocene survival, the giant California condor, one of the biggest birds alive...