Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twinkling Talents. The daughter of Irving Hall Chase, a Connecticut clock (Waterbury) and brass millionaire, determined Lucia Chase had talked down the skeptics who told her that a company without "Russe" in the title was impossible. For five years, while Russian Balletomane Sol Hurok had his hands on the company, its American accent became thick with borsch, but Dancer Chase brought Ballet Theatre safely past that stage. She encouraged more ballets by English Choreographer Antony Tudor and let aspiring young U.S. choreographers have a chance. One of them, Jerome Robbins, repaid her by giving Ballet Theatre one of its biggest...
...night last week a disgruntled movie fan received a soothing visit from the U.S. cinema's highest brass. Shepherded by Eric Johnston, their official spokesman, such bigwigs as Loew's Nicholas M. Schenck, 20th Century-Fox's Spyros P. Skouras and Paramount's Barney Balaban gathered in Washington for the occasion. The fan: Colorado's Democratic Senator Ed C. Johnson, author of a bill to clean up Hollywood morals through federal licensing of movie players and producers (TIME, March...
...performance. If Munch's interpretation had had one new slant, or two, probably no one would have noticed. But everything about this was different, startling, and best of all it wasn't Munch (or Koussevitzky), it was Brahms. From the first page everything converged upon a cataclysmic finale. The brass chorale in the last movement nearly knocked the statue of Pan in the second balcony off its pedestal. The end was a great overpowering mass of sound...
...seventh-floor office in the Chicago Sun-Times plant, Publisher Marshall Field, Assistant Publisher Marshall Field Jr. and other top brass met last week with a 22-man emergency committee of the Sun-Times Newspaper Guild unit. The committee spokesman told Publisher Field that the Guild had heard rumors of an impending bloodletting, wanted to get the bad news straight from the surgeon himself. Replied urbane Publisher Field: it was no mere rumor. His money-losing, round-the-clock Sun-Times was an "economic impossibility," so he was planning to drop the evening editions and turn it into a morning...
Even Dixielander Bob Crosby, who had given up his loud brass and fast beat after the war because "guys are sick and tired of jump stuff," was back on board. Last week he and his Bobcats were together again to record Dixieland versions of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever and Washington Post, which would have sounded almost natural coming over the tail gate of an oldtime New Orleans jazz wagon. "People are tired of love songs and weepy ballads," said Bob. "They want happy music...