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Four college presidents will participate in a symposium on Tuesday evening after a dinner at Dunster House for the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research. All four Kenneth Sills of Bowdoin, James P. Baxter of Williams, Henry M. Wriston of Brown, and Leonard Carmichael of Tufts are graduates of the University's Graduate Schools...
...Hoagy Carmichael and Doris Day play the two faithful friends who bring the great man back to health again. Carmichael, an old friend of Bix's, plays his "lifelike" role in a deathlike way, muttering monosyllables through a haze of cigarette smoke. Miss Day is extremely pretty and sings very well--but it isn't close to jazz...
...trumpeter's pianist sidekick, Hoagy Carmichael gives one of his effortless performances. Actor Douglas gives plenty of vitality to the central role, but he is called on to repeat a good deal of what he did in Champion; one scene, in which he bangs a trumpet to pieces and breaks into sobs, is almost a remake of the climax of his earlier film. Having discovered what Actor Douglas does best, Hollywood apparently is determined to work him to death...
Songwriter Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael was not sure he was quite up to the job. "I know my limitations . . . I'm not a student of music." But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a native Indianian, and that was more than most of the other invited composers could say as they began to compose short symphonic pieces for the centennial of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916). "I got on the telephone with [Indianapolis Symphony Conductor] Fabien Sevitzky and told him what I had in mind," said Hoagy. "He encouraged...
Last week, Indianapolis audiences also got to hear what had been on Composer Carmichael's mind. It was Hoagy's first serious composition, a nine-minute tone poem entitled Brown County in Autumn...