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...peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases." Had you examined my articles in the magazine you would have seen that I have expressed pleasure in a great many types of art, from Picasso, Hartung, Demuth, and American abstract painters to certain operas of Strauss and the dancing of Shankar. I should judge that perhaps 80% of my articles have been laudatory (favorable criticisms upon my own work certainly add up to much less than...
...figure can still dance, and Irene Bordoni can still wink, but next to Victor Moore, the most ingratiating performer is dark, magnetic Newcomer Carol Bruce, who knows how to put a song and herself over at the same time. Victor Moore, of course, is one of those things like Strauss waltzes and wire-haired terrier puppies that only a confirmed sourpuss could dislike. His Senator Loganberry takes rank with his Ambassador Goodhue and his Vice President Throttlebottom. A dazed, roly-poly babe-in-the-wood, he is probably surprised that he casts a reflection in a mirror. He has never...
Highlights of the conference were talks by Nathan Strauss, administrator of the United States Housing Authority; Helen Hall, director of the Henry Street Settlement House in New York City; Commissioner Arthur S. Fleming of the United States Civil Service; John N. Edy, executive assistant of the Federal Works Agency; Dr. Morris R. Mitchell of Alabama State Teachers College; Albert Mayer, New York architect; and Maurice J. Tobin, mayor of Boston...
...tune this season has the lilt of last season's Yours for a Song (reminiscent of Johann Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods), and much like last year's are the smooth water ballets, the adroit diving acts, the custard-pie antics ashore & afloat. But by using scenes from the San Francisco...
...Rameau-Motti Minuet from "Platee"--Musette Tambourin from "Fetes d'Hebe" *Scherzo from Octet Mendelssohn *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Piano Concerto to No. 2, in F minor Chopin Soloist: ELIZABETH TRAVIS *"Show Boat," Selection Kern *Fugato on a Well-Known Theme McBride "Thunder and Lighting," Polka Strauss...