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Fifteen prominent Harvard graduates, now in the faculties of Harvard and other American universities, have been appointed to fellowships of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for the coming year to engage in research study and creative work abroad...
...Saint-Simon mentions this tale in his Memoirs...
American Smelting & Refining Co. (Onetime [1907-13] Senator Simon Guggenheim is president)-$15,477,770. Previous year: $17,760,721. "The showing of earnings is quite satisfactory, in view of the fact that metal prices were lower in 1927 than in 1926, and your company is now a substantial miner of lead, zinc, copper and silver," soothed President Guggenheim...
...English translation is used of every text by the American Opera Company, which consists entirely of young American singers trained in this country. For "Faust". Robert Simon has prepared a skillfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, through less originally, made. With each piece the singing players seek equally the dramatic values of text, action and song. Vladimir Rosing, as stage director, is the author of these courses. The conductor is Frank St. Leger, formerly of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and of Convent Garden, London. These two men have worked with the company...
AUBREY BEARDSLEY-Haldane MacFall -Simon & Schuster ($6). Some 30 years ago a lanky fop, carrying a pair of lemon-kid gloves, his hair falling about his ears like a hermit's, attended an ironic ceremony in a London church. The occasion was the unveiling of a bust of John Keats; after it was over, Aubrey Beardsley ". . . broke away from the throng, and, hurrying across the graveyard, stumbled and lurched awkwardly over the green mounds of the sleeping dead." It was an ironic ceremony because Artist Beardsley, as Poet Keats had done, was to go southward and die of consumption...