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Engaged. John Alden Carpenter, 56, famed composer, son of a Chicago ship chandler; and Ellen Waller Borden, fortyish, Chicago socialite music-lover, divorced wife of Explorer-Stockbroker John Borden. Since the death of his wife, Rue Winterbotham Carpenter in 1931 and his latest composition Patterns (TIME, Oct. 31), hard times have forced Composer Carpenter to be attentive to his late father's factory (now mill & railway supplies). The marriage date was contingent on Mrs. Borden's raising $100,000 in $1 donations for a music temple at the Chicago Century of Progress fair...
...citizen committee consists of W. D. Swan, Jr., Chairman, Mrs. O. D. Kellogg, Mrs. Thorne Wheeler, Mrs. J. H. Townsend, Mrs. John Alden, F. H. Lovejoy, and Dwight Andrews...
...spikes to anchors. Lake shippers used to congregate by the dozen in George Carpenter's ship-chandlery, grown now to deal in mill and railroad supplies. But the Carpenter name has outgrown the business. People all over the U. S. are becoming acquainted with the music of John Alden Carpenter, the late Chandler George...
...Boston last week Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky presented a new Carpenter work called Patterns, in which shy John Alden Carpenter made his first appearance as a piano soloist. Boston's symphony subscribers went to the concert with high expectations. Composer Carpenter had delighted them before with Adventures in a Perambulator in which are described the reactions of an infant taking its daily excursion to the lake front; with Krazy Kat, sensitive, half-sad music for George Herriman's comic-strip characters; with a finely made Concertino for Piano & Orchestra...
Chicago is likely to deal more kindly with Patterns when it is played there this week. John Alden Carpenter is its foremost composer. Patterns, Chicago knows, was written immediately after the death of Composer Carpenter's wife Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, able interior decorator. His friends know, too, that hard times are making it necessary for Composer Carpenter to give more & more time to the business which his father left him to carry on down near the River...