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Fortnight ago Philadelphians heard the U. S. premiere of Mavra, a Stravinsky opera Vbuffe written twelve years ago. But few in the audience were impressed by an orchestra practically denuded of strings, or by a hero who strutted the stage in petticoats, his face covered with lather and a razor in hand for shaving. Stravinsky enthusiasts point reverently to his Symphony of Psalms which most laymen find cerebral, harsh, forbidding with its predominant brasses. Stravinsky's smaller works would seem like sketches if it were not for his sure, crafty workmanship, his uncanny gift for making each instrument behave...
...platform in Manhattan one day last week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...
Last week Peter Blume's South of Scranton (see cut) won first prize ($1,500) in the Carnegie International Exhibition of Paintings at Pittsburgh, against 356 other canvases by 296 other artists from 13 countries. A surrealist picture, South of Scranton was characterized by flat, bright colors, razor-sharp outlines. Rare indeed was the critic who dared to stand up and cheer for it. The New York Sun's Henry McBride, after a long description of his train trip to Pittsburgh during which a "sudden lurch" threw "an exceedingly handsome young woman'' into his arms, finally...
...might be the first move in a conspiracy between her servants and outsiders to steal her bell-less oxen. She sent her men out straightway, rounded up five Suk natives and had them flogged vigorously with a tire. When the tire broke, she herself brought up a leather razor strop and the last man was flogged with that. Seventeen days later he died in hospital. Major and Mrs. Selwyn and five servants were jailed. Utterly finished, the major contracted blackwater fever in jail and died too. Mrs. Selwyn fell ill but recovered. Last week she and her servants were...
While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...