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...opera was Korngold's Tote Stadt, the first given in German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola said yesterday that several of the men who will run today have been kept off the first year team through no fault of their own, and that he expected to see some of them on the University team next year...
...rich, sombre voice of Rosa Ponselle; because Giovanni Martinelli was the popular tenor who loved her; because Ezio Pinza was the blind king and believed it; because, by reason of its beauty and its simplicity, L'Amore del Tre Re pleases the tutored and untutored, there was small fault found anywhere with the opening performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, last week...
...much is expected that the distracted modern university publishes a catalogue quite as alluring as Sears Roebuck's. Everett Dean Martin deplores an educational system which, pandering to a materialistic age, offers equal "credit" for a course in Aristotle's Ethics and another in High Power Salesmanship. But the fault lies not so much with the age as with the perennial lack of a consistent philosophy of education...
During the last few years the one fault of Harvard teams has been that they have not won victories. After a brief dawn of hope this year a Harvard team has again seen victory snatched from its grasp. Almost everything else this Harvard team has strength, speed, and scrappiness but victory it, as yet has not and, as every one knows, victory is the greatest of all the virtues any team can have...