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Jaromir Weinberger: Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia: four sides). An English pseudo-folk song made famous when King George VI sang it at a boys' camp (TIME, Oct. 23), Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree was really written by old-fashioned British Composer William Sterndale Bennett. The spirited, polka-dotted variations on it by Czech Weinberger (who thought it a genuine antique) get brilliant treatment from the Clevelanders...
Last week a hardy old chestnut, still to be cracked, was picked over for the umpteenth time. Picker was Dr. Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis, head of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan. "I'm not interested in normal people," said bluff Dr. Lewis to a group of normal laymen. All great works in the world, said he, are the doings of neurotics, and if a psychiatrist wants to do his bit for civi lization, he should remember that men of talent must stay neurotic...
...opposite side of the chestnut stand is Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, great friend of Dr. Lewis and dean of the orthodox Freudian psychoanalysts. "I have analyzed many novelists and artists," said he last week, "and they have produced their greatest works after treatment...
This one is about David Niven as a magician whose hand is ever so much quicker than Broderick Crawford's eye. Result: he gets the gal, Loretta Young in this case. The old chestnut about the society girl running off with an entertainer is once again with us, but aside from a few emotional lapses, the picture is good...
Goodwin W. Harding of Chestnut Hill has been elected captain of the Yardling hockey team. Harding, a three sport man at Noble and Greenough, is 18 years of age, weighs 155 pounds, and stands five feet, nine inches...