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Declared Verner W. Main, a Michigan Republican elected to the House last year with the aid of local Townsendites (TIME, Dec. 30) : "I am in favor of the investigation but I don't think we ought to spend $25,000 or $50,000 cutting down a beanstalk to see why Jack doesn't fall. . . . You are attempting to do that which Canute of old failed to do, when he made his futile gesture of commanding the ocean to recede...
...colleagues, especially Colleagues Couch and politically important onetime Senator Elaine. He humbly accepted and executed the gold-buying program of his President's Professor Warren. Never does he talk big, like his fellow titan General Johnson, well knowing that lest some upstart Jack arise to climb a beanstalk of prejudice and perhaps calumny, the RFC had best be known as a gentle giant...
...school of music and give help, at the discretion of the trustees, to the Metropolitan. The Juilliard School of Music has thrived on its fat capital. Under President Erskine's administration a $3,000,000 building has been erected, where students put on their own opera. Jack & the Beanstalk, a collaboration of President Erskine and Composer Louis Gruenberg, was given as part of the housewarming...
...conceived by Playwright Oneill. There will be a few lyric moments at least, when Jones calls on the Lord to save him. No one would predict the rest last week. Composer Gruenberg wrote his Jazziest and Enchanted Isle in ultramodern vein but the score he wrote for Jack & the Beanstalk (TIME, Nov. 30) was as simple and childlike as John Erskine's libretto...
Jack & the Beanstalk, the opera by Writer John Erskine and Composer Louis Gruenberg, pleased children and grown-ups so much that it was rescued from the limbo predestined for most amateur productions. Established, bass-singing cow, squeaky-voiced giant and all, in a regular Manhattan theatre, it will have at least a two-weeks run. (For picture of cow, see TIME...