Word: tempos
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...Plus vite, Maestro, plus vite! Je ne suis pas malade." Nine-year-old Ruth Slenczynski was rehearsing with the Symphony in San Francisco, her home city, and the tempo taken by Conductor Bernardino Molinari, 54, displeased her. Molinari kept his temper at rehearsal but last week's performance was too much for him. The Concerto, Beethoven's First, had ended and he had left the stage. But not little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string...
...Manhattan on the crack Italian liner Conte de Savoía he lost his hat twice in a wild mêlée of Communist sympathizers and autograph hunters, retrieved it a second time with the merry cry, ''Ah-at last I have caught your American tempo...
Were it not for the occasional entrance into the novel of the stereotyped melodrama we have seen so often on the American screen, Mr. Gilkyson's novel would approach high quality. His prose is unflowered, simple and direct. It has the matter of fact tempo of its characters. Perhaps it is the most suitable fashion in which to achieve successful presentation of middle class people, but it is not even remotely capable of the engrossing effect of the style of Sinclair Lewis. Mr. Gilkyson has made a great potential story for Hollywood but he has sacrified quality in the attempt...
...Paddy, The Next Best Thing"--University. "Sweetheart Darlin" in a faster tempo. Also "Ann Vickers" which fails to arouse much emotion...
When her Five-Year Plan was at its highest tempo, the Soviet Union bought $114,000,000 from the U. S. in 1930, tapered off last year to $12,000,000, partly because the German Government offered easier credit terms. Last week Administration officials spoke of Soviet purchases from the U. S. to total $350,000,000 within the next twelvemonth, but several Republican Senators plaintively urged caution. "I have no objection to recognition," said Pennsylvania's Reed, "if it does not call for the lending of money to the Soviet Union by any [U. S.] Government agency...