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...nine undergraduate officers and 12 members of the Graduate Committee come pans for a new type of entertainment, "similar to a Fred Waring stage presentation." The emphasis will fall on original arrangements of Harvard songs and familiar semi-classical music for the Vocal Club, some to be sung with the God Coast Orchestra division. Opportunity awaits several good soloists...
Cocoanut Grove (Paramount) suggests that the modern song of the road will probably be attuned to touring trailers, and sung in mechanized caravansaries known as "motels." But Cocoanut Grove, a tale of the peregrinations of a sweet & dreamy Hollywood-bound dance band, trailer-towed on a shoestring from Chicago, has many a flat tire, never exceeds the speed limit...
...performance was the world premiere of a new version of the classic by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald and it is too bad that last night it was not possible to get an accurate impression of the quality of their work. This was so mainly because the choruses were sung by female voices, the clarity of the all-important diction being further obscured by the muffling of the words behind a heavy curtain. The action, though a trifle slow, went off with creditable smoothness, and the costumes by Alfonso Ossorio '38 and the lighting by George Wells contributed...
...Harvard songs, sung by the University at the end, are of the kind as well, for on this occasion words are sung in unison by a whole group which rarely gets together at one time to hymn their alma mater. To the Glee Club, for welding the community into a unit and for filling the night with song, go the blessings of the College...
Exuberant Sir Thomas can usually be counted on to pull a rabbit of some sort out of his hat. This season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute...