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Although seventy-one years old, this great Polish master is still capable of the most difficult programs. On Tuesday he will play a most delightful blend of classical and modern music. Beethoven's Sonata in D minor followed by selections from Brahms and Handel, and then four sketches. Debussy will comprise the well balanced program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...main points: use only wine grapes, protect the liquid from contact with the air, blend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wet Yale | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...microscope, these grains are often too gross, blur the minute detail. Greatly enlarged pictures are pockmarked. Cinema "stills," when projected, look spotted because of their size. Since the films in the ordinary moving picture are shown in rapid succession the grain patterns, which are different in every picture, blend, escape the eyes of the spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grainless Films | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

Life on the Riviera is a curious blend of pastimes such as sunbathing and tennis which build up the human system, and occupations such as tippling and gambling which do not. By far the most spectacular figures which move in the latter sphere are the mysterious group of slick little sloe-eyed men known as the Greek Syndicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dashing Jack to the Rescue | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Dainty, almost birdlike charm and a faculty for making every stage picture blend gracefully with the music - these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ravinia | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

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