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...been the dress industry's long suit. For years it flourished in a seller's market; it still inhabits an economic Bohemia where success often depends 50% on talent in designing, 49% on luck and 1% on managerial skill. A shop can be started on a corset string; given a loft and a few cheap machines, anybody can try it. Although dressmaking is Manhattan's biggest manufacturing industry ($349,482,204 in 1939), its units are pygmies: only 60 firms gross as much as $1,000,000 annually. Some 22% of the companies fail and are replaced...
...heard the harp in recital can imagine the amazing volume of tone it produces. To look at it, with its aesthetically-shaped frame, and its rows of fragile strings, one would think the best it could manage were a few inspired, but hardly audible tinkles, whereas in reality, when skillfully played, it can compete with the organ in fullness and richness of tone. The combination of the harp and organ, which I have never heard, should certainly be an unusual one, if not downright peculiar. It is hard to imagine the sustained, bellows quality of the organ blending with...
...extent from the narrowness of Les Six and the ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down, so my informant says, into a vein of jocosity, busy chattering strings, and short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes, sound effects, changes in mood and tempo, all contributing to a decidedly comic effect. It, and the Handel...
...Harvard Varsity, led by Captain Franny Simpson, will be out to avenge last week's overtime decision to the same Bengals down at Princeton. It will also be trying to keep its home record intact, a string of victories only broken by Dartmouth in the first week of January...
What makes High Sierra something more than a Grade B melodrama is its sensitive delineation of Gangster Earle's character. Superbly played by Actor Bogart, Earle is a complex human being, a farmer boy who turned mobster, a gunman with a string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom...