Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alden Carpenter, most famous of U. S. nationalist composers, have avoided jazz symphonies, contenting themselves with writing rhapsodies, operas, ballets, tone-poems. Loudest pooh-poohing of their efforts has come, not from high-brow critics and musicians, but from swing and hot jazz fans who find this symphonic jazz stiff and imitative...
...portrayal of the traditional canny Scott. Peggy Eastall is more than satisfactory as the efficient manager of the concern: the one who comes closest to getting the bills paid. The acting is simplified, since the characters are really types. Even so, William Judd and Harry Buckman are a little stiff in their roles of brokers; and Robert Markewich and James J. Storrow, 3d., put too much burlesque in their respective parts of ex-best customer and Yale man. The whole, however, is a pleasant bit of ingenuous comedy...
...Paris, where he studied for a while in the stiff, classical studio of Leon Bonnat, Toulouse-Lautrec's appalling ugliness not only kept him from his own class but left him uncomfortable in the presence of fellow artists. Only in the half-world of Parisian cafes and dance halls did the Vicomte feel at home. Of these, from 1885 to his death in 1901, Toulouse-Lautrec became the greatest delineator. Strumpets, vaudevillians and circus performers admired him for his talents, acid wit and title, but they did not call him M. le Vicomte, or even Henri. Because the paunchy...
...these were conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs and "goon squads...
...Elkins Park, an otherwise undistinguished suburb of Philadelphia, Millionaire Joseph Early Widener occupies a stiff Georgian mansion known as Lynnewood Hall. Leathery, spick & span Mr. Widener owns one of the crack racing stables of the world, has Godfathered two swank racetracks-Long Island's Belmont Park and Miami's Hialeah. Less familiar facts about Sportsman Widener are that his Lynnewood Hall contains the choicest private collection of Old Masters in the U. S., that he himself is a cultural servant of Philadelphia. In that capacity last week 64-year-old "Joe" Widener became the centre...