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...IRA W. HIRSHFIELD
Yours Is My Heart (music by Franz Lehar; book and lyrics by Ira Cobb and Karl Farkas; produced by Arthur Spitz) brought famed singer Richard Tauber to Broadway. First produced in 1928, Yours Is My Heart might well have been produced much earlier-its music has a dated schmalz and lushness, its plot a dateless inanity, its humor a primordial ghastliness. Shifting from a tacky Paris to a chop-suey Peiping, its romance of a French opera singer (Stella Andreva) and a Chinese prince gets snarled in dramatic difficulties long before it bogs in dynastic ones. Out of the debris...
...President Karl T. Compton, Edwin R. Gilliland, and Jerome Clarke Hunsaker. The board of directors includes Ralph E. Flanders, board chairman of Jones & Lamson Machine Co. (who will also serve temporarily as president of the company); Bradley Dewey, onetime Rubber Administrator, now president of Dewey & Almy Chemical Co.; and Ira Mosher, chairman of the board of the National Association of Manufacturers...
Last week N.Y.U. named its first full-time Negro professor: Dr. Ira Reid, 45, able chairman of Atlanta University's sociology department. His new one-year post: "visiting professor of Negro culture and education...
Southern-born Ira Reid went to Atlanta's Morehouse College, did graduate work at the London School of Economics, took a Ph.D. at Columbia. Says he: "There will be 6 ft. 4 of the Negro problem standing up before the students. I do not need to discuss it separately...