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...first unit opera stage, has the largest portable outdoor stage lighting equipment ever assembled. They built ten great ramps tilted toward the audience, broke these up into myriad levels. There is a revolving unit 30 ft. high, which last week furnished a mountain pass in Carmen, a monster throne and then a tomb in AH da, the waterfall in Tom-Tom. For the mountain in last week's Die Walküre, nothing less than a real one would do, so Laurence Productions built...
...Sidewalks of New York" was played by mistake on the monster organ in Chicago Stadium last week during the Republican National Convention. It produced only snickers & snorts among the G. 0. Partisans. Next week, on purpose, the same piece will be played on the same organ in the same hall. It will produce happy grins and roaring applause among the embattled delegates to a far livelier, less orderly National Convention of Democrats. Theme-song of their 1928 campaign, the tune will be an overtone of Democratic politics so long as Alfred Emanuel Smith is alive, which he very much...
...head the 1932 committee on awards for achievements in motion pictures. Later RKO directors elected Mr. Aylesworth president in place of Hiram Brown. RKO is better off than it was a year ago. So is Universal, run by old Carl Laemmle's smart son "Junior," who started the monster cycle. Most extraordinary personnel changes were in Fox, where Edward Richmond Tinker, long with Chase National Bank, became president to succeed Harley L. Clarke, onetime utilities tycoon. Six months later Mr. Tinker became board chairman, was succeeded a president by Sidney Kent, onetime Paramount general manager. Winfield Sheehan, who last winter...
...monster named George Grosz arrived last week from Germany to teach at Manhattan's Art Students' League. It was his first U. S. visit, yet wild rumors and alarums had prefixed him a monster...
...Students' League last week was a mild, fine-featured little man with precise measuring gestures. His face was ruddy, slightly chubby, kindly, with serious brown eyes, an occasional nervous blush, a baldish brow. His clothes were those of any prosperous American at a baseball game. This, no monster, was George Grosz, 38, normal citizen, husband & father. He resembled none of his subjects, save for teeth slightly muskrat. He was largely unaware of the Sloan-Lie difficulties, had not yet met Mr. Lie. No Communist, he voted for von Hindenburg in the last German election...