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...living reproach to Aristotle, Cherubini and Schnozzola is the Flute Club of New York. For 24 solid years, ever since the bearded, quizzical French flutist Georges Barrère founded it, the sodality has met regularly for the sole purpose of discussing, playing and listening to the flute. A few years ago the club erected a flutistic milestone by presenting the U.S. premiére of Henry Brandt's Concerto for Flute with an Orchestra of Ten Flutes...
Married. Alice Barr Dollar, 52, granddaughter of "Captain" Robert Dollar, San Francisco's rags-to-riches shipowner; and Curtiss Hayden, 25, salesman; in Manhattan...
Erudite Director Alfred Hamilton Barr of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art once asked this question, writing in the days (1930) when the surrealist movement direly needed an apologist in the U.S. Last fortnight, Barr's Museum acquired one of the most important early surrealist paintings. The picture was 55-year-old Italian Giorgio de Chirico's Delights of the Poet, painted...
...Gathered by Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; also by Lincoln Kirstein, the museum's consultant on Latin American art, who wrote the above comment on Figari. He is now in the Engineers Replacement Training Center, Fort Belvoir...
Died. The Reverend Dr. Norman Burton Barr, 75, pioneer Chicago social worker, founder and longtime superintendent of famed Olivet Institute, tenement dwellers' settlement house; of a heart attack; in Chicago. One of his enterprises was an "eviction house" for the temporary shelter of families thrown out of their homes...