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The initiations have also descended in quality. Originally the new members were given a speech by the president, welcomed into the Society, and then asked to read "parts," or papers on various topics. Later on, the ceremony was elaborated into a parody of the Oral Exams. Nowadays, the initiations are...
Alec finds himself by imitating others. He is a superlative mimic. Like Charles Dickens, one of his favorite writers, he learns what a character is by imitating what he does; like Dickens, he sometimes mistakes caricature for characterization. He invariably begins a character by deciding what he would wear and...
T.R. wisely told us to "speak softly and carry a big stick." Nowadays, the big stick is a mashie.
Personal Traits. A small, darting man with jutting jaw and deep blue eyes, he guards his health (he had a three-year bout with tuberculosis as a youth) by riding horseback often, spending each weekend at the house he was born in, to which he has added a top story...
"Movie music," said Sir Thomas Beecham, "is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica." For years, audiences approached screen music with what the industry regards as a more eupeptic attitude: they ignored it. Although isolated scores such as Max Steiner's music for Gone With the...