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...suggestion may be offered, it is that the editors would appeal to a larger audience than tthe student Union by going light on controversy, in which little talent has been displayed except by their opponents. The journalistic "sting" is a device that has been worn threadbare by the Progressive's elder brothers...
...more famous talent driven to the U. S. by warmaking abroad, Antonin Raymond is a bony, thin-lipped man of 50, with sunken cheeks and an ascetic affability. Born in Prague, he was once a U. S. assistant military attache in Switzerland, an engineer-architect with the late Cass Gilbert. Frank Lloyd Wright took him to Tokyo in 1919 to help build the Imperial Hotel. Raymond stayed there, became Japan's foremost modern builder. He employed as many as 100 men in his Tokyo office, did 600 jobs, including the U. S., French, Soviet. Belgian and Manchukuoan embassy buildings...
Like the friends of many another commercial writer, Edgar Wallace's averred that he could be a serious writer if he took the trouble. But they mistook the nature of his talent. His real genius consisted of an infinite capacity for taking pains to make money. And, like a true artist, he did not care what happened to the money after he made...
...generally considered to be art which arises spontaneously from the people and is the result of a communal effort. America has long been wanting in this respect and has thereby lost a certain richness in its culture which comes only when the people have sufficient inherent artistic talent to produce it. To be sure there have been the cowboy songs of the West, and the ballads of the Kentucky mountains, but there has been nothing which the public could seize as its own, as a part of its everyday life. The obvious answer for the dearth of folk...
Drawing its talent from more than seven Harvard and Radcliffe organizations, the opera is expected by its sponsors to surpass the production of last year. General manager of the performance is Lawrence F. Ebb '39, while Courtland Canby 2G will conduct the music and Alan S. Downer 5G will direct the acting. Miss Katherine Schroeder with the assistance of Miss Helon Mayor, Radcliffe '38 will put the dancers through their paces...