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...winter of 1907, Manhattan had its most celebrated operatic scandal. Critics scolded, pulpits seethed. The solemn, stiff-collared directors of the Metropolitan Opera House went into a huddle, sent a word of warning to harried Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less...
...This New York, his solemn column of social chitchat in the New York Herald-Tribune, Columnist Beebe reported: "It appears that the lads of the upper forms have their own debating teams, pick their own subjects and conduct their oratorical tournaments without let or hindrance from their instructors. Their last jousting was due to fall . . . just before close of school for the summer. . . . It was only toward the end that the headmaster, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, learned the topic under discussion, descended with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping...
...members stuck at having a WPA artist fill a space meant for Whistler or Sargent. "If any member," said Mr. Stokes, "thinks that Edward Laning is a long-haired Bolshevik, he should get a look at him." Edward Laning is neat, solemn; at 32 he looks less like a Bolshevik than a college senior. The sketches he submitted for four panels on The History of Bookmaking (Mr. Stokes suggested the subject), impressed the board last week and finally succeeded in bringing it around completely...
...publishing's minor mysteries. Knopf conspicuously omits biographical notes from the jackets of "B. Traven's" books. Guesses have ranged from the suggested, that here is a modest author, to, that here is a pseudonym used to avoid damaging the writer's reputation in some solemn field. The books themselves give few clues. They are written in a dry, travel-talk style, as awkward and as full of irrelevant observations as a letter home...
That WPA has an influence on politics, only a congenital ostrich would deny. Whether it plays politics is the issue. Last week the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee passed two solemn judgments. It ruled that: 1) the ultimate author of WPA benefits, Franklin Roosevelt, when as Head of the Democratic Party he addresses the whole country (as he did in a heart-to-heart radio talk fortnight ago) is above criticism in appealing for votes; 2) Aubrey Williams, Deputy WPAdministrator was not above criticism in his appeal last fortnight to the Workers Alliance (reliefers' union) to ''keep your...