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Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton...
...Cradle Will Rock is an artistically and politically radical opera which has been in rehearsal two months. Because it had been written by talented composer Marc Blitzstein, directed by prodigious, 22-year-old Orson Welles and mounted with singular care and beauty, 18,000 people had bought tickets for the performances supposed to begin last week. When at the last minute the Federal Theatre cut down on its activity by postponing all openings beyond July 1, liberals like Archibald MacLeish, Sidney Howard, Lewis Mumford begged the Administration to make an exception for The Cradle Will Rock...
...Cradle Will Rock reports, with controlled and eloquent class hatred, a steel strike. Mr. Mister is the mill owner. He corrupts a doctor, bulldozes an editor, terrorizes a college president and arranges for the assassination of a labor organizer. Mrs. Mister gives a clergyman his weekly dole and tells him what to say in his sermons. She keeps a painter and a musician on her string. The two sing a song which goes...
...Standard Theatre. In 1883 Henderson joined the staff of the New York Times, and four years later he was made its music critic. But editors did not forget Billy Henderson's fine news stories on the death of William Henry Vanderbilt and the blowing up of Flood Rock. When, in 1889, the great flood destroyed Johnstown, Pa., the Times sent him to get the story...
...differently. Chief of these is Dr. Bailey Willis, an 80-year-old Stanford geology professor with a handsome white beard. Two years ago a diver, working on the preliminary survey for the Bridge's great south pier 1,000 ft. from shore came up to declare that the rock was "as soft as plum pudding." Dr. Willis devoted months to proving that the rock on which the pier would rest was crumbly serpentine "unstable to a degree likely to endanger the bridge." This blast was apparently the reason the PWA refused to aid the builders. Dr. Willis was presently...