Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Jaroff. Little Jaroff had once been a pupil of Composer Serge Rachmaninoff. He could write down music from memory when, as in most cases, there was no music to be had. By the time the Don Cossacks were transported to Bulgaria their chorus was so good that it was engaged to sing in a Greek Orthodox Church in Sofia. In 1923 it gave its first formal concert in Vienna, has since sung some 1.800 times throughout Europe, the British Isles, Australia...
...when she is occupied or doing something she likes-for instance, driving an automobile as fast as it can go. The Well of Romance. Somewhere between the opening chorus and the final curtain of The Well of Romance, Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) forgot that he had set out to write a burlesque comic opera and settled down to hammer out the sort of entertainment which used to be so admirably handled by Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar but whose present day imitations are so consistently lustreless. That Mr. Sturges originally intended to poke fun at oldtime operetta is evident...
...were in love with Jane: solid Fred, radical Ernest. Fred could not read or write but knew all there was to know about handling a canal barge. (If you think little technique is required in Fred's profession. Author Herbert's account of a trip up the "Cut" from London to Birmingham will teach you better.) Fred was honest and capable, but gave Jane nary a thrill. Ernest was a bright one, talked socialism at her 16 to the dozen; when he paused for breath took liberties. Jane did not really like him but he did excite her. But when...
...Goldsboro, N. C., Tinker Blackman, who can neither read nor write, was arrested for forging checks on his grandfather, equally illiterate. Forger Blackman secured some one else to witness while he made his grandfather's "mark" on checks...
...takes something to write about simple people, countrymen, immigrants, without being photographic, drab. What it takes Zona Gale has got. Out of the ruck of close-to-the-soil Midwestern authors she emerged with her first book. Her stories are as realistic as bread but they have a homemade flavor, not to be had without a personal recipe. She handles a grim subject with skilfully gentle, feminine hands...