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...Pochon has been suffering from a bad wrist. They will play in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock the following programme: Mozart's Quartet in E flat major, Kochel No. 428; La Oracion del Torero by Joaquin Turina; a Scherzo of Glazounow; and the Beethoven Quartet, Opus...
...kiddies round the fireside on a cold winter's night, he has written a hodge-podge mumbledy-jumbledy guide to English and American literature, so other people will known what to read to their own dear brats. At least, that is the only visible purpose in his latest opus, "After the Great Companions"--unless he wrote it just for the fun of thinking over on paper what he had read. It is not criticism; it can scarcely even be dignified by the vague name "appreciation"; it is merely a "Names and Numbers of all the Players"; a guide-book...
...author whose claim to the Erie Canal is undisputed. FOOLS RUSH IN-Anne Green-Dutton ($2.50). Another frothily innocuous yarn by the sister of a morbidly good writer. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS-Gertrude Stein-Harcourt, Brace ($3). First U. S. edition (abridged) of Gertrude Stein's unreadable magnum opus...
...King's Horses (book & lyrics by Frederick Herendeen; music by Edward A. Horan; Harry L. Cort and Charles H. Abramson, producers). For this season's few musical shows in Manhattan† this studiously unoriginal little opus afforded company rather than competition. The story is labeled: "A Royal Escapade in a Little European Kingdom. . . . Let Us Call It Langenstein." The music is cacophonous except for "I Found a Song" which decorative Nancy McCord and spry little Guy Robertson spend most of their time singing. For humor Librettist Herendeen has relied heavily on the outlandish sound of U. S. slang...
...Currently the Met matinees are being sponsored over the NBC chain by Lucky Strike which contributes some $100,000 per season to the Met treasury for the privilege. But last week Met Director Sarnoff wanted to talk less about broadcasting grand opera than he did about a new RCA opus...