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...organ recital, Professor Davison, assisted by Evangeline Merritt, soprano, will present "Prelude," Vlerne; "Air," Bandel; "Air do Lia," Debussy; "Pastorale," Franck; "Ich wandte mich," and "Wenn ich mit Menschen and mit ngelszungen redete," Brahms; "Patron das macht der Wind," Rach; "Sur un theme Breton," Rpoparts; and "Austrian Hymn," Paine. This will be the last public organ recital of the current academic year...
...people, started somewhere near the banks of the Rhine, spread loosely through Europe, crossed the Pyrenees into Spain, and reached Ireland and England only a few years before the Roman invasion of 55-A. D. They have a basic language. Today linguists agree that the Welsh, Irish, Scottish and Breton languages are related to the Celtic. The Basques, however, a mountainous folk, were little influenced by the Celtic invasion of Spain in the 6th Century B. C., have today a completely unrelated language...
...wives seem to think they are being made game of. Certainly neither the nice Mr. Santayana nor even Mr. Marquand meant to do that. They were merely showing them off, as one shows a most prized heirloom. George Apley, with his five-button coat, is to America as the Breton peasant woman with her super-headdress is to France; perhaps some day he too will adorn the pages of the National Geographic on the dentist's waiting-room table...
...Poet André Breton, who frequently dresses entirely in green, smokes a green pipe, drinks a green liqueur . . " (TIME, Dec. 14) is not unique in his obsession for green...
Students of surrealism rank with Founder Breton and converted Dadaist Max Ernst, several practitioners of equal or greater importance. There is the able Italian Giorgio de Chirico, who, besides his familiar studies of prancing horses and Roman columns, likes to paint surrealist views of long deserted streets in dream cities, adding to one work a startling note by carefully painting realistic tea biscuits on the end of a painted crate. There is Philadelphia-born Man Ray, who is not only an able painter but manages to imbue Rayograph pictures of bits of wire, corks and lumps of sugar with exactly...