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Carlton Miles, prominent Broadway critic and playwright, has been selected by the Dramatic Club to stage their production of "Jonah and the Whale", an English Comedy by James Bridie, it was announced today...
...institution little known to the U. S. public is the American Academy of Arts & Letters in Manhattan. Last week members and their guests assembled to hear an oration from President Nicholas Murray Butler honoring the centenary, of Charter Member Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an organ recital, more speeches by amiable Critic William Lyon Phelps and ruby-nosed retired Editor Robert ("Droch") Bridges of Scribner's Magazine. Then one and all adjourned to view a collection of 170 sculptures by the only ; female sculptor in the Academy, capable, unassuming Anna Hyatt Huntmgton...
...Tannhauser, Elgar's King Olaf, Grieg's Olaf Tryggvason. Heated, enthusiastic, she swung next into a Schumann symphony, had to wipe her perspiring brow after the first movement. She had picked up enough energy in her European trip to satisfy everybody and to make Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson find the orchestra "well nigh unrecognizable, so firmly has Ebba Sundstrom increased her grasp over her players since last spring...
...aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce, "with such richness of voice, such simplicity of phrasing and such communicative charm that they enchanted an audience almost 100 per cent at sea as to their meaning...
Having missed the book the critic cannot say how faithfully the movie reproduces the original "Anthony Adverse," but the Hollywood version just misses being a fine show...