Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week there joined the ranks of U. S. music patrons President Martin L. Davey of Davey Tree Expert Co. of Kent, Ohio, onetime (1918-21, 1923-29) Congressman, candidate last year for the governorship of Ohio (TIME, March 5, 1928). Claiming no expert musical knowledge but believing that his political experience qualified him as judge, Politician Davey will wager 26 nation-wide radio programs, beginning Jan. 5, that people in the U. S. prefer oldtime melodies to either jazz or classical music. He explained: "My first purpose in putting on this program is to commemorate the golden anniversary...
Statistics assembled last week by President Harvey L. Williams of Air Investors, Inc., an investment trust: the stocks of 33 companies concerned with aviation reached a total high market value during 1929 of $1,160,000,000, then dropped to an aggregate...
...Manhattan last week it became known that Modernist Composer George Antheil and Writer John Erskine were planning to collaborate on an opera, the heroine to be Helen of Troy. Composer Antheil, a native of Trenton, N. J., began his musical career in Paris, returned to the U. S. in 1927, won notoriety with his Ballet Mécanique scored for ten pianos, bass drums, xylophones, rattles, whistles, bells, a mechanical piano, a sewing machine motor, and an airplane propeller (TIME, April 25. 1927). Writer Erskine became famed with his smart satire, The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
Many of Composer Pietro Mascagni's loud and pessimistic utterings seem prompted by a great personal grievance based on the failure of all his operas since Cavalleria in Rusticana. But his grounds for grumbling last week were broad, not personal. He had been commissioned to investigate the condition of opera in Italy on behalf of the Royal Academy at Rome. He had found: that of 100 opera houses only 15 are financially able to present a creditable winter season; that the reason is "the fictitious and arbitrary valuation'' of singers' services. To directors of the Academy...
...accident, sir . . . we mistook him for our platoon sergeant.' So they were both shot by a firing squad of their own company." In Béthune Graves saw queues of 150 men lined up before the army brothel. "Each woman served nearly a battalion of men every week for as long as she lasted...