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...Hamilton, who specialized in burlesquing the white-tie manner of Announcer Milton J. Cross on an opera program, recently resigned. Now Milton J. Cross, who likes a little spoofing, burlesques himself. The program notes written for him are rare and irreverent non sense. ("The melody then builds into a five-part harmony with the bassoon wan dering off happily in search of a short beer.") Scripter Welbourn Kelley is now with the Navy, but continues to send in the scripts. Singer Mary Small is the latest in a notable list of "divas" who began with a vocalist named Dinah Shore...
Englishman Auden, however, does not allow such a lump of purely democratic emotion to stick in his throat for long. He clears it out with an elaborate, witty, rhymed, five-part letter to hyper-aristocratic English Poet Lord Byron. In this sophisticated, not entirely mock-serious composition, Poet Auden confides his thoughts about English literature in general, about his own life and times in particular, points a pretty straight finger at the hot spot on which up-to-the-minute literates fry perforce. His view of his fellow poets is neither encouraging nor hopeless : . . . many are in tears...