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...human râles. In 1932 Zoologist Lee R. Dice of University of Michigan suggested in the Journal of Mammalogy that all mice may sing, but on a pitch too high for the human ear unless the mouse has unusual vocal equipment. In other words, perhaps Minnie was a basso mouse...
First sign of Juilliard influence was the appointment of Herbert Witherspoon, old-time Metropolitan basso and later a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, as Gatti's successor. General Manager Witherspoon had worn his title for two weeks when he dropped dead of coronary thrombosis. Tenor Edward Johnson, long a popular favorite, stepped immediately into the post. Confronting him were union difficulties, many an important contract, many that had not been signed...
COURTHOUSE SQUARE-Hamilton Basso -Scribner...
...shots, all accepted breathlessly and with apparent surprise. Loudest applause, no matter what she sang, came from Mary Hague's own guests, among them Husband Hague, Jimmy Durante, George M. Cohan and James J. Walker who, when he was New York's mayor, married Mary Lewis to Basso Bohnen...
COURTHOUSE SQUARE-Hamilton Basso -Scribner ($2.50). Deftly written novel about a novelist who sickens of New York intellectual life, returns after ten years to his birthplace in a small Southern town, narrowly escapes lynching when he disturbs fellow-townsmen's ideas about Negroes...