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...Pizzetti had been widely heralded, his coming sponsored by Conductor and Signora Toscanini, by Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Metropolitan Opera Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. His career had been extensively reviewed: Pizzetti is Parma-born, a musical critic, director of the Milan Conservatory, friend of Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio with whom he has collaborated on three operas.* His opinions had been aired: Pizzetti has no fears for the death of opera, says it will surely survive him. His U. S. plans were made public: Pizzetti will play...
Heathcote William Garrod, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry this year, will give his seventh lecture of the year tonight at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Large Lecture Room, speaking on "Methods of Criticism in Poetry." Professor Garrod, who has already lectured this half-year on Arthur Hugh Clough and Robert Bridges' "Testament of Beauty," will deliver his final lecture on Tuesday evening March 11, when his subject will be "Matthew Arnold as Critic...
...prophecy alone did Critic Gushing confine his last week's chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...
...Upton Sinclair, Dos Passos is more of an artist than an agitator. He was one of the artists, writers arrested in Boston in 1927 for protesting publicly against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.* Dos Passos has many friends, no intimates. He is the original of "Hugo Bamman" in Critic Edmund Wilson's novel, I Thought of Daisy (TIME, Oct. 7). Tall, anxious-browed, bald, nearsighted, monkey-gestured, he is excessively shy, extremely polite, chivalrous, stammers, cannot pronounce the letter R. Said never to use bad language himself (except when speaking of the late great Author Henry James...
...advent of Professor Hind, an art critic of recognized authority, is awaited in the confident expectation that the high standards set by previous incumbents of the chair in their interpretation of poetry in its-stricter sense will be maintained in the consideration of poetry in its broader scope...