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...First Lady, to girlish Mei-ling (née Soong*). who went to Wellesley, bangs her hair like a Victorian debutante, adores jade and jewels, is Methodistly devout. Last week First Lady Mei-ling again complied with a request she seldom refuses -the urgent request of a visiting Wellesley alumna for audience. Audience with China's First Lady is always at tea. Tea was served last week in the First Lady's small, closely guarded red brick and grey cement house at Nanking, her husband's capital. Why does she never join him in the field...
Dorothy Canfield Fisher, alumna & author . . . Litt.D...
...Smith College in Calvin Coolidge's town of Northampton, Mass., where able, modern girls smoke, drink and carry on in a frank and open way that is distressing to many a rigid alumna, there occurs each spring an event which commends itself to the most conservative. Smith has given the U. S. premieres of six classical operas, three by Claudio Monteverdi, three by George Frederick Handel. Last week still further to Smith's credit was the U. S. premiere of Handel's Rodelinda...
...mystery to man." Conspicuous exceptions to all these generalities immediately pop into our minds as we read them in cold print. And yet we can get them off with a perfectly straight face, and conviction in our tones. This bland positiveness bears out the suggestion of a recent alumna that college, whatever it may teach us, is very apt to deprive us of our sense of humor and our ability to see things in their proper proportions and relationships...
...Cincinnati Zoo Opera; Ai'da Doninelli, Italian, who three years ago came from Central America and settled in Chicago, to make her debut the first week in A'ida. Mezzo-sopranos: Grace Divine of Cincinnati, first week debut in Manon Lescant; Jane 'Carroll (nee Helen Howard) of Louisville, Ky., alumna of the Ziegfeld Follies chorus and The Vagabond King, to make her debut in The Egyptian Helen. Mark Windheim is sole male recruit?a German tenor who has already sung with the St. Louis and Philadelphia Opera Companies, to make his debut first week in Manon Lescant...