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...companion-picture. "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," returns to more orthodox lines, and shows a gangster (Leo Carillo) kidnap Ted Louis. Cab Calloway, Kay Thompson, and their respective ensembles (played by themselves) and make them perform in a recording studio which he has just acquired. The various types of modern music are satisfactorily rendered, but the story and dialogue are weak...
Early one evening a lean, white-haired man of great dignity was led by three bowing captains to a table in Manhattan's noisy Cotton Club. He watched Tap-Dancer Bill Robinson perform, listened with interest to the music of Cab Galloway. As he left, Maestro Arturo Toscanini said he had had a fine time...
Miracles-Divided as to whether they actually occur, the commission agreed that God can perform them if he wishes, although some hold that he does not wish...
...Delius went to Friedrich Nietzsche's ode to the superman,Thus Spake Zarathustra, for inspiration, converted portions of its Biblical German oratory into choruses and vocal solos, illustrated its moods with a surging orchestral undercurrent. His Nietzschean Mass, which requires over an hour and a half to perform, is so perfectly formed and climaxed that the listener's interest never lags-a pretty sure sign, in a pieqe of that size, that a great musical mind has been at work...
...election is disrupting because it comes at a time when the Union Committee is just starting to function efficiently. The Committee finds itself suddenly ejected, to be replaced by inexperienced officers with no duties to perform save those of appointing committees, which they promptly fill with their own friends...