Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pick out the winning numbers.' "I'll get the numbers through the medium who'll be in a trance, and I'll write them down on a piece of paper. And nobody but me will know what those winning numbers are." Less occult was the manner in which the memory of Cleveland was recalled last week in Manhattan. Recalling the hard winter of 1893-94, said Jerome, grey-haired Major Domo and for 42 years an employe of smart Sherry's restaurant: "On either side of the 6th Avenue entrance to Central Park there...
Owen D. Young on Gold. Just back from Europe last week, Tycoon Owen D. Young addressed Manhattan's famed Lotos Club in a manner which caused him to be mooted again for the White House (see p. 15). But Mr. Young also said things which made German editors leap joyously next day to the conclusion that he favors scaling down what Germany must pay under the Young Plan because of the increasing price of gold. * Said Tycoon Young, giving a discreet, humorous, personal twist to the awful and stupendous problem which the Young Plan was devised to solve...
...modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos or trios. The characters do not express themselves in formal, stilted song. More in the manner of Pelleas et Melisande, they talk back and forth naturally in the intimate, emotionalized musical speech for which Mary Garden has a particular genius...
...behind last year in subscriptions. The Sunday matinee series has been discontinued "after a careful inquiry into costs and the probable income." Whether this can all be attributed to hard times is a matter of opinion. Certainly there has been no lack of sales effort in the best Insull manner. But critics contend that too much has been said about the "duty" of supporting the opera, too little about how good the operas are. Chicagoans, whether they approve of Mary Garden or not, agree that she is the one who puts life into the company. For 20 years...
...direction by Von Sternberg is impressive as always. In the small use of conversation or rather the absence of it at times, the manner of unraveling the story becomes a matter of keen interest rather than a recitation by a story teller. The photography is excellent; the use of light and shadow of the vine shaded streets on the marching Foreign Legion being particularly effective...