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...rhythm and smoothness so often lacking in that dance when modernized. They also have tango which Rita says is the same as that done is Rudolph Valen tine in the "Four Horseman" Having failed to see the former movie king in this picture , one can not make a deunite comparison, but the odds would seem to be on Renarto and Rita...
...missing frets, play the second fiddle. Children who can read are encouraged to act each sentence out in dumb show. The system tries to make all of a pupil's acts coordinate with all his senses. Through ideological gymnastics, an intellect is developed by the exercise of attention, comparison, judgment...
...Emerson and Carlyle, and poems of longing and vision from Lowell, Whittler and Tennyson, together with a few of Lincoln's addresses and other inspiring writings of our modern times, to make a modern bible to add to the ancient book, and it need not suffer by the comparison...
...condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left the orchestra, that Toscanini had heard and resented it; that he (Mengelberg) resented not having been invited to conduct the Philharmonic in any of its European concerts this spring (TIME, July 15). Mengelberg performances this season have suffered sadly in comparison with Toscanini's. Critics have flayed them unhesitatingly. Mengelberg, who for 35 years has been undisputed musical lord of Amsterdam, is unlikely to be willing to continue as second man in Manhattan. Some say that he will go to San Francisco next year to succeed Conductor Alfred Hertz. Other possible...
...statement, La Galli-Curci favors the individual concert over the opera presentation as being more in tune with a mechanical age. By this, she seems to suggest that the radio and the "talkie" have been the factors in upsetting bel canto. Opera, she asserts, is too heavy-footed in comparison with them. The world has lost interest...