Word: loudnesses
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There are, of course, small matters which would benefit by improvement. For example there is Miss Viola Tree who overacts the part of a gawky noble woman until it literally hurts. She is, to be sure, egged on by the loud guffaws of a disconcertingly large proportion of the audience, and so perhaps after all she is only giving her public what it demands. We just can't be reckoned as part of her public. But the point is a relatively minor one, and Miss Tree excellent work of so many others...
...state of industry. Ready for its consideration was a carefully prepared report against increased Federal taxes, extrava- gant public building programs, application of all the sinking fund allotment and foreign interest payments to public debt retirement. This meeting Michigan's millionaire Senator Couzens last week viewed with loud alarm. In a sarcastic statement he declared that the business men meeting in the "Rose Rooms" or the "Pompeian Rooms" of Atlantic City hotels would doubtless resolve against any interference with their affairs by the U. S. Government. To this Senator Couzens retorted that unless Business, as represented by its national...
...Robert Rutherford McCormick was selling his interest in the Chicago Tribune to Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. and Advertising Man Albert Davis Lasker. The rumor gained wide currency last week because of the recent sale of Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, April 13), but it brought only denials and loud laughter from the principals...
...Bulgaria, was celebrated the funeral of Efrem Todor, peasant. The village priest stood by his coffin, said calmly: "And he leaves all his property to the Church." Angrily all Efrem Todor's relatives rose up, protested bitterly that he did no such thing. From the coffin came a loud groan, a sound of splintering wood. Efrem Todor sat up. The priest fled in confusion, the villagers cheered...
...music than the man who wrote it. Much of Stravinsky's Oedipus, despite its rigid pattern, is powerful dramatic music, worthy of translation. So, for Philadelphians, last week Stokowski proceeded to translate it, using modernistic idioms: The speaker (Negro Wayland Rudd; recalled the story in English through a loud speaker attached to the proscenium arch. On a platform above the singers, puppets 15 feet tall represented the Greek protagonists, themselves nothing but puppets manipulated by the gods...