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These words, sung to the taut accompaniment of a studio orchestra, emerged last Sunday night from such U. S. radios as were tuned in on Columbia Broadcasting System's "Workshop of the Air" (producer of Archibald MacLeish's radio play in verse, Fall of the City, Stephen Vincent Benét's Paid Revere). The Captain who expected people to bow down was, it appeared, a Fascist, for his "Purple Shirts" aimed to exterminate "the mongrel race." Mr. Musiker, the composer who wanted to present to someone a tune that was running through his head, found...
...acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely at its best in the open air. They thought her dance of the Seven Veils more realistic than graceful. Ivan Ivantzoff was more secure as cowardly King Herod. Conductor Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes at Freiburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Basle, Milan. Manhattan applauded the ingenuity with which Lert changed the Stadium platform into an Oriental terrace and clothed the singers in costumes out of Edmond Dulac...
Last week as the temperature rose steadily, the Tanana ice-jam began moving, drawing the wire taut. At 8:04 p. m. May 12 the trigger was tripped, the clock stopped, making Mervin E. Anderson, 31-year-old Fairbanks bus driver, whose guess of 8:02 p. m. was nearest correct, some $75,000 richer. Day before Guesser Anderson split with another guesser the $3,500 first prize in another similar pool based on the movement of ice in the Chena River at Fairbanks...
...Mensendieck prefers the pawing step, because it "strengthens the legs, improves their shape and has a permanently beneficial effect on the arches," compels full extension of the knees, keeps the groin taut, and "being measured and controlled, is the flowing and beautiful step." Last week meticulous Dr. Mensendieck, 60, wearied from compiling her new manual of functional postures, shunning the kudos she expected its publication will bring upon her, rusticated in southern France. She lives alone. Once she had a husband, who died shortly after their marriage. As close-mouthed about her personal life as she is loquacious about...
Rustum is bracing his feet in the sirups, holding his bow at arm's length and his fingers taut, as he watches the fight of his shaft. Isfandiyar, pierced in the eye, is sinking forward, clutching at saddle and mane. But both faces are wholly impassive; no movement of the features was necessary to the Persian mind. None was thought worthy of the dignity of painting. The-flowery meadown is merely suggested; trees, rocks and clouds are formal conventions. But the cosmic aspect of the tragedy is announced by a great burst of organge fight in the darkness...