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...Audubon published his magnum opus, "Birds of America." His determination to represent even the largest birds in life size dictated the folio's enormous dimensions, 39 1-2 by 29 1-2 inches. As a result the book is referred to as the double elephant edition...
Like everything Author Wylie has written in recent years (Generation of Vipers, An Essay on Morals, Opus 21), The Disappearance has as many flaws as a pot-holed road, as many undigested scraps of thought as a Quiz Kids' program. But even the grotesqueness of the fantasy, and the gaps and snags, do not seriously detract from the book's underlying warmth of heart and crusading fervor. With the aid of a monstrous trick, Author Wylie again lays a stubby forefinger on his favorite theme-the relation of the sexes-and succeeds, at last, in discussing the matter...
Call Me Madam,Irving Belin's latest opus, featuring Ethel Merman as a lady ambassador, is said to be based on the career of one Perie Mesta, now ambassador to Luxembourg. The music is Berlin, this time distinctly a cut above Miss Liberty, his last try. The book is by Lindsay and Crouse and direction by George Abbot, an exceptionally talented trio...
Today Aitken will play Bagatelles, Opus 119 Sonata, Opus 106, and Sonata, Opus 109. Sunday his selections will be Sonata, Opus 101, Bagatolles, Opus 126, and Sonata, Opus...
Included in the program are Handel's suite from the music for the Royal Fireworks; Prelude, Fugue and Postlude, by Honegger; Bacchus at Ariane, from Roussel's Ballot Second Suite, Opus 43; and Beethoven's Symphony Number Three in E-flat major, the Eroica, Opus Number Five...