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...Nazi broadcast boasted that "every three-star Baedeker attraction" in Britain would be blasted to bits. Britons got a chuckle when Critic Hannen Swaffer pointed out Baedeker's niggardliness with asterisks for things British. Fact is that two stars is the highest accolade given in any country by Baedeker. "Perhaps the German braggarts," mused Swaffer, "have been indulging in Three-Star Brandy...
Alexander Hertz, conductor, composer, and critic will speak at a meeting of the Symphony Club tonight at 8 o'clock in the Music Building. The subject of his talk will be "The Music of Gliere and Borodin...
...Finest study to date of the Chicago school is included in the monumental book, Space, Time & Architecture by Swiss-born Architectural Critic Sigfried Giedion, which has just reached its third printing (Harvard University Press; $5). Giedion finds the roots of the Jenney and Sullivan skyscraper, not in the showpieces of past European and U.S. architecture, but in such useful and noble feats of engineering as glass-surfaced markets and department stores, or the cast-iron-pillared warehouses of the St. Louis water front...
Eugene Edward Buck, the man who rode high and handsome as president of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) while it grew into a $7,000,000-a-year business, lost his job last week. ASCAP's directors elected in his stead Critic-Composer Deems Taylor...
...motion picture industry will speak on the problems of war facing people in the arts, especially the films. Melvyn Douglas will represent the actors. Garson Kauin the film directors, and Richard Ford director of the British Library of information will speak in place of Bosley Crowther New York "Times" critic...