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...opera last week got a new Falstaff-from The Bronx...
What Could He Lose? Leonard Warren reversed the usual U.S. operatic procedure and changed an exotic name to more familiar syllables. He was born Warrenoff in The Bronx, where his Russian-born father ran a fur shop. After graduating from Evander Childs High School he helped with his father's fur business, studying advertising at Columbia on the side. He also took some singing lessons. They might have remained a hobby but for the depression which crimped the fur business...
Died. George Washington Collier, 100, The Bronx's last member of the G.A.R., in The Bronx, N.Y. Greenwich Village-born Collier was taken prisoner by Stonewall Jackson's men in 1861 at the Battle of Harper's Ferry. His comment on the current war: "Hitler's head should be chopped...
...church bell to replace the bell the Nazis carried off for scrap. Sometimes it seems that Major Joppolo is the only person who loves the villagers. Certainly he is the only one who has a practically realizable vision of what democracy can bring to Adano. Raised in The Bronx, razzed as a wop in school, a truck driver at 16, a $12-a-week grocery clerk at 20, a second-class clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before going into the Army, Victor Joppolo brings to Adano the unbelievable thought that government should be the servant...
Harry Burleigh lives in The Bronx, has been separated from his wife for some 25 years. Their son is Major Alston Waters Burleigh, U.S.A., and there is also a grandson in the Army. Harry Burleigh has had the means to help many younger Negro musicians, including Marian Anderson, who sang on one of his programs when she was publicly unknown. He views social problems with a conservative eye, believing that the Negro should advance himself through individual effort rather than political action. A musician of classical training, he is not at all interested in jazz. His hobby: detective stories...