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Among refugees who arrived in North America last week were: Poet Robert William Service, short, red-faced, British-born author of many a hairy-chested ballad (The Cremation of Sam McGee, Shooting of Dan McGrew), resident of France for the past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose...
...Harry Hines, a churchgoing member of the Texas Highway Department. Pappy O'Daniel got out his sound truck (with a replica of the Capitol dome on top), hired some more entertainers (including Texas Rose, a girl ballad singer), and put on a two-week whirlwind campaign. In his wake he left a trail of fainting girls and women-sometimes as many as a dozen would be laid out on the truck, prostrated by the crush of O'Daniel handshakers. On Saturday night, after the polls closed, he threw a mammoth party in the Governor's Mansion...
...moral, blunt as a rifle butt, of Kipling's ballad, is that in peacetime democracies keep their little armies on starvation rations and hard words, and when war comes, wish they hadn't. After every war the U. S. has fought, it has disassembled its fighting machine, on the theory that there would be no more wars. Result is that most U. S. wars have been fought wastefully (with unnecessary loss of life) and "heroically" (inefficiently) by bungling, unkempt armies. Exception was World War I, where the A. E. F. gave a good account of itself. But even...
Most ambitious work of the evening was a "ballad poem" for narrator, contralto, white and Negro choirs and orchestra: And They Lynched Him on a Tree. Poet Katherine Garrison Chapin (Mrs. Francis Biddle, wife of the U. S. Solicitor General) wrote the words; the music was by shy, devout Negro William Grant Still, who inscribed his score: "Humble thanks to God, the source of inspiration." Composer Still's inspiration often ran to obvious, ear-catching effects, but it kept pace with Mrs. Biddle's ballad: an evocation of Negroes gathering in a pine clearing after the white folks...
...Stadiumgoers, the real part of the evening began when big, magnetic, broad-smiling Negro Baritone Paul Robeson appeared. The Philharmonic, under the come-to-glory gyrations of a new conductor, Mark Warnow of radio's Hit Parade, blared a broad, thoroughly whistleable melody. It was Ballad for Americans, in which Robeson was "the everybody who's nobody . . . the nobody who's everybody," as he was in its radio launching last winter (TIME, Nov. 20). Baritone Robeson sang...