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...stroke the real purpose of a higher institution of learning? Higher institutions of learning have lived through long ages, seen nations rise and fall, governments come and go in their real purpose to follow up truth. It does not seem to me that any such machinery carries torth the torch of truth on its way through the life of an individual in the life of society as a whole - can any business managership or other such goals so much sought do other than tend to lead one into narrowness from the lack of thought gives such ends as truth. Cannot...
...Torch Bearers" will continue its run at the Copley for another week. Copley audiences have given it the stamp of their approval, and from all appearances will continue to do so throughout its second six days...
...performance, and aftermath of a one-act-play, as it is presented by a group of "society" women who will never realize that they will never act. Mr. Kelly provides several new jokes and the Copley players bring in all the old ones. the audience guffaws genteelly. . . and "The Torch Bearers" enters its second week...
...production proceeds, one is convinced that all such amateur actors are fools, that their husbands or fathers invariably drop dead in the cause of art", and that, whenever the "torch of concomitant culture" has been raised, it is doomed to sputter out, leaving contented homes in blissful darkness...
...wagged his head. They noted that he had a good back. They noted that every now and then, when he wanted to indicate a sudden pianissimo, he shot his left hand into the air, palm flat, in the way of one who hoists a heavy tray or thrusts a torch aloft. For the rest, his gestures were continent. He led Debussy's Nuages; Honegger's Pacific 231, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstacy. Like a storm of white hail came the clapping. With inexorable courtesy, Koussevitzky bowed and bowed...