Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, Oscar Levant added one more to his long list of trades by publishing a book of gossip and reminiscence. Modestly entitled A Smattering of Ignorance (Doubleday, Doran, $2), Author Levant's book races bumptiously and gabbily through 267 pages of anecdote about the great, near great, and not-so-great of the music and cinema worlds, pats Toscaninis and Stokowskis on the back, mourns worshipfully at the late George Gershwin's shrine, analyzes the musical gifts of Harpo Marx and Charlie Chaplin, chats wittily and continuously about Oscar Levant...
...Last week world-famed, 48-year-old Basso Kipnis finally made his Metropolitan debut. Bearded and berobed in the usually boresome part of Holy-Grailer Gurnemanz in Wagner's lengthy Parsifal, Kipnis stole the show from Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, acted not only with his face and hands but with his voice as well. When Basso Kipnis was through with him, Gurnemanz had passed from muscle-bound youth to tottering old age without missing a footstep, and critics assured one another that a finer Gurnemanz had not been seen in a generation...
...street. Engaging such top-flight Metropolitan Wagnerians as Lauritz Melchior, Elisabeth Rethberg and Friedrich Schorr to sing with WPA's New York City Symphony, he sponsored a series of Wagner concerts at Rockefeller's Center Theatre. Seats: 25? to $1. So successful were the concerts that last week Mayor LaGuardia and Director Johnson decided to repeat their venture, this time with Tschaikowsky's music instead of Wagner's. Storming the Center Theatre, 3,581 music-minded Manhattanites made the Rockefeller Center concerts one of the biggest WPA musical successes on record...
...Hollywood-by-the-Sea, just north of Miami, Fla., stands an $800,000 Spanish stucco hotel. Most of the time it sleeps silently in the sun. But one morning this week a bugle call shook it awake. Out of its rooms rushed some 600 smartly uniformed boys. They lined up for breakfast formation, began the winter term of the Riverside Military Academy...
...recruiting pupils, get part of their pay in commissions. His pupils pay $1,044 a year, which includes eight uniforms, tuition, board and all expenses. They are required to furnish bedding, an indelible ink outfit (for marking clothes) and a Bible. The school fee includes spending money: $1 a week for cadets averaging 90% in their studies down to 25? for those below passing...