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Charles Townsend Copeland '32, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will give a reading of selections from the Bible and one from Kipling today at 11 o'clock in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. This appearance will be Professor Copeland's first public reading since his radio debut on the afternoon of December 24, when he read Christmas selections over the radio through station WBET...
...evening of my debut arrived. I danced before a group of people so ... enthusiastic that I was quite overcome. They scarcely waited for the end of a dance to call out, "Bravo, bravo, comme elle est exquise...
Proudly in the front rank of contemporary composers stands Bela Bartók, Hungarian. Symphonophiles the world over know him for a revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms. Last week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear...
...gallery began to clap first; as the music faded, the applause gathered and grew quicker; then voices cheered, diplomats and dowagers crowded toward the stage on which a girl was nodding and laughing and stooping to pick up flowers. The enthusiasm that greets an opera singer's debut is sometimes the lightest, the most sudden, the most exciting that any artist can ever achieve. Dorothy Speare, last week in Washington, was enjoying a moment that she must always remember for its exquisite gaiety, thrown to her like a bouquet...
...found successes before: when she published her first novel, Dancers in the Dark (in 1922); when she sang in Italy last winter. In the Washington National Opera Festival, singing Mignon, she was only making her U. S. debut. When on two later evenings in the same week she equalled her achievement in the difficult mezzo-soprano of the first, newsgatherers jostled at the stage door. They learned that her writings had furnished the wherewithal for her musical education; that even now she was writing a play for famed David Belasco to produce and her fifth novel; that her real name...