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Though he spends his life poking fun at the foibles of mankind, he seldom makes a bitter remark about a friend. As an after dinner speaker, he is successful; but not at Rotary Clubs. I think of him as a combination of H. L. Mencken and Martin Luther. Yet he is not fanatical in his humorous creeds. He is writing a serious novel in which he firmly believes, and has written a play which, he tells us, was neither humorous, serious nor good; but then, Mr. Stewart, among many other things, is a modest...
...suite of very unique nature will follow the latter selection--that of "Socrates" by Erik Satie, one of the most often discussed but seldom played of the living composers. "Socrates", as it happens, is one of the very few of Satie's published compositions that is wholly adapted to the conditions of the concert room. In this production, which will be heard for the first time tonight, Satie bases the music on extracts from the Dialogues of Plato. It is also one of the soberest pieces that the singular Parisian has set to music...
...Davis, who won golden opinions for himself as American Ambassador to the Court of St. James, imitates in this regard his friend's shrinking from publicity. But it is observed that the ex-Ambassador is in great demand for public speeches and that he is seldom introduced without some quiet reference to the gifts that 1924 may bring...
...race factor. Cancer is curable-if taken in time. Surgery and deep X-ray or radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten a fatal hold on the healthy tissue...
...greatest of blessings if the Metropolitan gives Don Giovanni next year. This is a masterpiece that one rarely gets a chance to hear. The basso that can sing and play the role of that prodigious Don Juan Tenorio, who was such a favorite among the virgins of Spain, is seldom to be found. The Metropolitan now, however, has a man with a reputation for singing Don Giovanni. He is Michael Bohnen, who made his American debut in the middle of the season. Bohnen is that exceptional phenomenon among singers, a man of high intelligence and culture. He is distinctly...