Word: english
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (the RCA Victor Chorale of Women's Voices, with Laura Newell, harpist; Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Benjamin Britten's settings of these Old English verses, some of them anonymous, are ingeniously simple and tonally beautiful. Performance and recording: excellent...
...from the circulation desk. If a thief should manage to slip a book out of the reading room, he would still have to get it past Mr. Matthews at the outside door. Matthews, a virtuoso bartender in his spare time, is a doorman in the grandest manner, complete with English accent. Since the Library's opening, he says he has only had to stop one person--a freshman who wandered out absentmindedly with a rare book in his hand...
Groups which have arranged the program are: the Pan-American Society, English Speaking Union, American Friends Service Committee, Foreign Student Advisers, and National Student Association...
Jean R. Debrix, critic and producer of experimental French movies, speaks tonight on "New Trends in Films" under the auspices of Ivy films at 7:30 p.m. at New Lecture Hall. Debrix' lecture will be in English. The talks will be accompanied by excerpts from recent movies...
Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will read Dickens' "Christmas Carol" at tonight's "Christmas Send-Off Party" at the Union. Jones' reading, at 7 p.m. in the Upper Common Room, will be preceded by a plano recital by Paul Knudson...