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...retain his seat Senator Allen must beat George McGill, Wichita Democrat, in November. All incumbent Congressmen seeking re-election were renominated. Governor Reed, Farm Board critic, good Allen friend, was defeated for Republican renomination by Frank ("Chief") Haucke (pronounced How-kee), 36, bachelor, famed Cornell footballer, A. E. F. sergeant, onetime Kansas commander of the American Legion...
When the premiere was over the meagre audience applauded apathetically. Next morning critics in the public prints seemed doubtful, unconvincingly called it "music on the grand scale" or echoed Critic Herbert Hughes's (London Daily Telegraph) florid romantics, printed in the program. Reflective listeners decided Launcelot might be more effective if halved, with fewer thematic repetitions, or conversely, expanded into a full-length, Neo-Wagnerian opera as Coates first intended to do. Bold or brave was he to introduce his work on the same night with such magna opera as Respighi's orchestration of Bach's Passacaglia...
...without musical experience. He is at home with no instrument more musical than a typewriter, can barely carry a tune, but he once earned his living writing about music for his fellow-Irishman, the late famed Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor. Explains Shaw: "He made me musical critic quite frankly and explicitly ... to prevent my writing about anything else than music. My other writings were ruining his paper [The Star...
...Ireland of Welsh parents, is one of few living literary men to whom the term "free lance" can be fittingly applied. Onetime cowboy (in Texas), onetime schoolteacher, onetime editor (of the London Vanity Fair, Saturday Review, Candid Friend), he is an all-time anti-authoritarian and rebel. Says Critic Joseph Wood Krutch of him: "Love, forgiveness and pity are his themes, Jesus and the 'gentle Shakespeare' his idols, but truculence is his manner." Says Harris of himself: "I am a lover of books and men, who takes pleasure in the past by traveling and in the future...
Author John R. Tunis, 41, is a Harvard man (1911), studied at Harvard Law School. Onetime reporter, he is now billed as a sports "critic." He is on the staff of the New York Evening Post. Like most successful sportwriters, harping on and exposing professionalism is his forte. He has also written: $port$, Heroics and Hysterics...