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Wednesday Evening, May 9 *Procession of Bacchus, from the Ballet "Sylvia" Delibes *Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark *Londonderry Air
...years the responsible job of seeing tax bills through, the Senate rested on the patient, sloping shoulders of prosy Reed Smoot, who stood on the floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all, was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Last week Senator Smoot was in far off Utah serving as a pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee...
...grand opera next season. The New York Metropolitan announced that it could no longer afford its weekly trips there. Philadelphians, it seemed, had been sluggish about contributing to the Metropolitan's life-or-death drive last spring. Day later, however, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association took most of the sting from the Metropolitan's action by announcing that it would put on opera itself, three performances a week during ten of its 30-week season...
...Zorach let out a cry of protest, charging that the Soviets had stolen an idea submitted by him for a Lenin memorial in Leningrad. Zorach, too, drew concentric cylinders but they represented a base for a shaft that telescoped into a streamlined statue of Lenin. Picking words that would sting most he declared of Iofan's work: "It goes back to the most decadent pseudo-Roman development, the sort of thing old kings and old queens loved, a sort of tremendous wedding cake . . . incorporating the worst archaic figures of the capitalistic system...
...stones, bead necklaces, cuffs, rods with decorated tips which the Coclés stuck in their ears, breastplates embossed with strange monsters, plaques bearing robot-like human faces. There were mirrors of hematite, agate beads and pendants, statuets carved from ribs of the manatee (sea cow), spearpoints made of sting-ray spines and sawfish teeth, shark's tooth necklaces, wild boars' tusks set in gold...