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Many a parlor entertainer has a stock of well-rehearsed piano tricks. Many a vaudeville performer can play Yankee Doodle and Old Black Joe simultaneously when his stooges in the audience suggest the titles. Alec Templeton impressed Chicago critics with more remarkable feats. When Glenn Dillard Gunn gave him a theme, he quickly responded with a choral prelude which the Herald & Examiner critic almost took for a Bach-Busoni transcription. Pianist Templeton also showed Mr. Gunn he had not only learned Rachmaninoff's new Paganini Rhapsody from records but also could rattle off his own piano transcription...
...years of academic effort and achievement, and it also points a compelling finger at a vigorous previous flower on the tree of drama when apparently a new bud is struggling to open its petals. Several original undergraduate plays have been produced at Harvard this year, the New York Dramatic Critic's Circle is formed, creating an intelligent board to hand laurels to dramatic artists for the first time in America, and the Harvard Classical Club revives Plautus' Mostellaria; there is indeed a year to make Aristotle chuckle, and the Harvard under-graduate mutter a prayer of thanksgiving that...
...hero "Studs" Lonigan (Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, Judgment Day), began in Chicago a generation ago as the frilled darling of an Irish family, grew up to be wonderfully rough & tough. Progressively ruddier are Novelist Josephine Herbst (The Executioner Waits); Playwright Albert Bein (Let Freedom Ring); Critic Granville Hicks ( The Great Tradition), who on his Fellowship will carry past 1890 his revolutionary interpretation of U. S. literature. Ultra Red is satiric Poet Kenneth Fearing, who bitterly wrote of a poor man run down by a truck...
Blond, muscular, young Surrealist Peter Blume upset many a critic two years ago when he won first prize in Pittsburgh's Carnegie International Exhibition with a slickly painted abstraction of twisted topography and soaring sailors called South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). One of the eight art Fellowships went last week to Surrealist Blume to continue daubing at a small anti-Fascist canvas he began on Guggenheim funds...
...become Guggenheimers, young writers do well to know such bigwigs as Critic Henry Seidel Canby (Saturday Review of Literature), who have much unofficial say-so as to who gets what. Applicants may do even better by knowing a modest, soft-voiced scholar named Henry Allen Moe, who is Secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, has in twelve years threaded his way through a round 10,000 applications. Secretary Moe spends much time digging out prospective Fellows. A few have been so shy that he "had to drag them in by the heels." When Secretary Moe lights on a likely applicant...