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...Clubs will sing a long list of selections, for the most part separately but combining for some numbers. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, assistant professor of Music and conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, has chosen two catches by Purcell as the featured numbers, "Casey Jones" and "The Old Maid...
...Soon One Morning (Spiritual) arr. by Marshal Bartholomew (c) Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray (Spiritual) (Soloist: M.D. Stafford, '40) (d) Cindy (Carolina Fiddle Tune) arr. by Arthur Hall Football Medley Yale Two American Folk Songs (a) Casey Jones arr. by Edward B. Lawton, Jr., '34 (b) The Old Maid's song arr. by Howard Brockway (Soloist: H.M. Rainie, '40) Two Catches Purcell (a) I gave her cakes (b) Once, twice, thrice I Julia tried Two Choruses from The Mikado Sullivan Finale from The Gondoliers Sullivan Football Songs Harvard Bright College Years Fair Harvard Yale and Harvard
...Purcell catches, for example, are neat, sparkling little pieces written to rollicking texts, which require a certain amount of editing for relatively prudish modern audiences. Lawton's arrangement of Casey Jones is a remarkably clever composition, and The Old Maid's Song, a Kentucky mountain folk-song, has a text and a lilting melody which ensure its success in spite of a rather unimaginative setting...
...Women" deals with the fair sex in the cynical thirties, so "The Old Maid" takes its problem back into Civil War Days and the mauve decade. It is characteristic of the two periods that while Clare Boothe's hell-cats are desperately trying to get themselves out of marriage, Edith Wharton's bustled and be-snooded felines spend their time clawing their way in. The old maid, Bette Davis, never quite makes the grade, and the ensuing complications make grim and glorious fare...
Year ago Bubble-dancer Rand told a Broadway columnist she planned to retire as a rich old maid of 60, live on her annuities. This year she launched her Dnude Ranch at San Francisco's Fair-this time as proprietress, while other young women did the physical labor. By Sept. 30 she had netted $32,433. Meanwhile, business looked so good that she opened a second show, Gay Paree...