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...broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems Taylor, official narrator, sat in a little glass booth in one of the grand tier boxes, describing music and action to radiauditors. In another soundproof booth were an expert with score in hand, ready with warnings to tone down drum beats and bass notes, and an engineer watching the volume-registering needle...
Jack & the Beanstalk, the opera by Writer John Erskine and Composer Louis Gruenberg, pleased children and grown-ups so much that it was rescued from the limbo predestined for most amateur productions. Established, bass-singing cow, squeaky-voiced giant and all, in a regular Manhattan theatre, it will have at least a two-weeks run. (For picture of cow, see TIME...
Meanwhile, sailing for Europe was Fabien Sevitzky, nephew of Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky who dropped the first four letters of his name some years ago so that his career would not be just a pale reflection of his illustrious uncle's. Sevitzky, like Koussevitzky, is a double-bass virtuoso; like his uncle exceedingly handsome, well-groomed. After fleeing from Russia in Revolution time, tramping through dense woods in stormy weather, carrying the double bass which was a gift from his uncle, Sevitzky came to the U. S., joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. For the past six years...
Next day 62-year-old Ruby Laffoon, oldtime lawyer and judge, presented himself on the Capitol esplanade to take the Governor's oath. Tall (6 ft.), solid (180 lb.), with crow's feet around kindly eyes, big mouth and a booming bass voice, Democrat Laffoon had won last month's election in no small measure by his ability to put names to faces. He first met Grover Cleveland when as a lad he had marched into the White House with a paper which he doggedly refused to give to any one but the President himself...
...smile in tried silence. Fat dowagers in alligator pumps talk over counters with irascible volubility. Little girls stand on tip toe and squirm while a doll says "mamma" and closes her eyes. On Tremont Street gamins paste their noses against the plate glass and whistle. Choirs seek a new Bass for the Halleujiah Chorus and the Junior League trills "Stille Nacht" amid giggles at pronunciation. Beacon Hill buys tins of choclate against the evening when bell ringers and choristers will trudge up Chestnut Street. Ministers fitfully page the Bible and leave it open on the desk at the Gospel...