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...storerooms in either Paris or New York and at a moment's notice produce an exhibition of Renoir, Monet, Degas or the rest, to knock out the public's eye. At long intervals the partners remember their duty to living art, introduce a new talent. They seldom take much of a chance. Any painter sponsored by cautious Durand-Ruel is apt to have enduring ability, and their patronage launches him convincingly. Last week this distinguished firm was showing for the second time in seven years the works of a youthful Frenchman named William Malherbe. Critics immediately wrote...
Conservative estimate of the total take from the numbers racket in the U. S. is $1,000,000 per day, $300,000,000 per year. The unsavory talent which was once lavished upon 'legging is now employed in what is usually known as "the numbers." Credited with having put the numbers on a big-business basis was the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer.* In pennies, nickels, dimes, dollars, mostly from the poor, the money pours into the underworld in an ever-golden stream. The profit margin is high, for while the odds are 1000-to-1, the payoff...
Current problem of the cinema industry in England is whether the U. S. talent that it is now importing will supply it with a trace of Hollywood dash. Second production of enterprising Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s London studio, with an American author (Zoe Akins), director (Thornton Freeland) and two Hollywood principals, Accused suggests that, on the contrary, England may infect Hollywood emigres with that dignified lethargy that has been the drawback of so many British pictures in the past. Well-acted by conscientious members of the vast theatre population which is one of London's chief attractions...
...winter as it always did when Arturo Toscanini was leading the Philharmonic. A skinny young man in ill-fitting clothes and thick glasses came on to play two piano concertos. He looked unimpressive, shy as a rabbit. But before he had got through many bars everyone realized his extraordinary talent. When he finished the first concerto the audience clapped and cheered wildly. Toscanini stepped back among the musicians and applauded with them. Last week young John Barbirolli, 37, brought back young Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, 33, for a second New York performance that all but eclipsed his first...
...term as almost miraculous. The box office had soared, the deficit had fallen to the lowest in four years. He had tried to build up the orchestra, encouraged the energetic if occasionally ragged American Ballet. The spring season gave hopes of being an excellent proving ground for U. S. talent. Most important was the reanimated public that seemed to awaken once more to opera. A few grumbled that Johnson's first season had been the most conventional in Metropolitan history. No premieres had been produced. Not one opera was put on unless it looked sure-fire from...