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Died. John Erskine, 71, professor of English literature at Columbia University (1909-37), novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy), concert pianist, music educator (president of Manhattan's Juilliard School, 1928-37); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Starting on a novelist's career at the age of 46, he scored an immediate success with Helen, thereafter wrote 18 more novels in the same mold, using figures from legend and history (Galahad, Adam & Eve, Francois Villon, Venus) to satirize 20th Century manners & morals. At the end he was still writing his streamlined version of Chaucer...
...Troy Hawkins, 32, the wife of a Laurel, Miss. postal worker, was up most of the night with her small daughter, who was ill. It was 4 a.m. when Mrs. Hawkins finally snapped off the light and dozed off with her arm around her daughter. She was awakened by a man crawling up to the bed in the darkness. According to her testimony, after threatening to "cut your goddamed throat if you holler," the intruder raped her and fled...
Last week Harold Stoke, at the end of a failing mission, announced that he was fed up, would resign as of Feb. 1. With brisk efficiency, the board of supervisors picked a new president: Mississippi-born Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, 61, able wartime commander of the VIII Army Corps in Europe, since 1939 (with time out for war service) L.S.U's comptroller. Harold Stoke's new mission: to take "some time out for battle fatigue," then look for another...
...principally because Faust seemed entirely long enough (three hours) without it, the Met had dropped the 17-minute Walpurgis Night bacchanale that opens the fourth act. Most European opera companies (Paris is one exception) also ignore the number. But to Manager Bing, the ballet in which Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and other famous beauties appear at the summons of Mephistopheles to tempt Faust seemed an integral part of the opera...
Bowen also announced that the search for Helen of Troy has ended with the selection of Connaught O'Connell '52. Others in the cast include: Theodore L. Gershuny '54, Hector; Joanna Brown '52, Andromache; Charles Humpstone '53, Paris; David Bowen '51, Ulysses; Christopher C. Beels '53, Priam; June Garfield, Cassandra; Jane Johnson '52, Hecuba; and Michael Mabry '53, Ajax...