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Unable to stand on both feet, Marian Anderson managed to exhibit one of the richest contralto voices that has been heard in the U. S. for many a year. One Viennese critic described her as "a black Lilli Lehmann." That she is not. But she is an exciting, sure-voiced singer who would make any race proud. Her Handel songs instantly revealed a breadth and nobility of style. Her Schubert Ave Maria was not something interpolated to catch popular fancy; it was fervent, even as an organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving...
...poet and critic, Mr. Gregory has published his poems in three books entitled "Chorus for Survival", "No Retreat", and "Chelsea Rooming House", which came out last year. He has contributed to the "New Masses" and the book section of the New York Herald Tribune, and has also published a collection of translations from Catullus...
Mayor Mansfield's action in banning the "Children's Hour" would be laughable if it were not so astoundingly narrow-minded and tyrannical. Mayor Mansfield posing as a dramatic critic, of course, cuts an absurd figure. But when censorship of a play like the "Children's Hour" is the result, amusement gives place to disgust. Possibly the Mayor, being an elected official, has vaguely heard of something called democracy, and its implication of free choice, particularly in intellectual matters. Seemingly, however, the idea would be strikingly novel...
...Such a gift was badly needed to meet Longone's payroll but the thought of it infuriated many a Chicago taxpayer. Most newspapers were wary with their comments, partly because Mayor Edward J. Kelly is one of Longone's backers and the Opera's honorary president. Critic Herman Devries went so far as to say in the American: "The city of Chicago may well be proud of its own opera during the Paul Longone regime...
...Nancy Brown" was born Annie Louise Brown in Perry, Me. 65 years ago this week. She was graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1892, taught school in White River Junction, Vt., Rockville, Conn. and Mount Clemens, Mich. In 1904 she married James Edward Leslie, Pittsburgh dramatic critic. After her husband's death in 1917 childless Widow Leslie filled in for a few months as dramatic editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, then went to live with relatives in Michigan. Late in 1918 she appeared at the office of the Detroit News, asked...