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Dean von Stade considers the extension of freshman parietal hours until 11 p.m. Saturday nights a good idea, Marc E. LeLand '59 reported to the Union Committee last night...
...Harvard Union Committee has unanimously recommended extension of Freshman parietal rules to conform with upperclass regulations, Marc E. LeLand '59, head of the subcommittee backing the proposal, said last night...
There are now no less than 17 recorded versions of Mack the Knife spinning across the U.S., and most of the horror has gone out of it. U.S. Composer-Author Marc Blitzstein has effectively translated the Berlin slang into American, but as Satchmo growls the words, the listener is amused rather than chilled by the corpse sinking into the river, weighted down by what Armstrong insists on calling "ceee-ments...
...Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) liked to call himself "the painter from Maine." But he traveled considerably in Europe, appraised its art with a shrewd Yankee eye. Hartley was the first American to grasp the power of German expressionism, immediately adapted the experiments of Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc to his own ends. His German Officer (opposite) is as tumultuous as anything painted before World War II, though not so bold as today's abstract expressionism...
Died. Lyonel Feininger, 84, topnotch U.S. modernist painter; in Manhattan. New York-born Feininger went to Germany in 1887 to study music, turned to painting instead, exhibited in 1913 with the Blue Rider group (Klee, Kandinsky, Franz Marc), taught painting and graphic arts at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933. Influenced by cubism, he illumined dark, glowing abstractions of sailboats (a famed one: Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria), churches and city scenes with the placement of crystal-like shafts of light...