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After the dam ceremony, while motoring to Las Vegas, Nev. to re-entrain for the coast, Senator Pittman suggested driving up nearby Mount Charleston. The gravel road, just built by CCCsters, winds around sheer shoulders with room for only one car. Ten miles up there was a hair-raising moment as the President's car was turned around, with the President in it and only a foot to separate him from a yawning precipice...
While five sonnets per day is a full-time job for the ordinary mortal, Dr. Moore is not an ordinary mortal. He swims in the annual 12-mile race from Charleston to Boston Light; he is a practicing psychiatrist with offices on Commonwealth Avenue; and he is an instructor at the Medical School. He also found time to get married and is the father of two boys when he reports have little in common with poetry...
...music. Ira Gershwin, Brother George's collaborator in many a Broadway show, was called in to supply special lyrics. Director Mamoulian, who made his name with the original play, was willing to leave Holly wood. Mamoulian liked working with Negroes, had a steadfast admiration for the primitive tragedy of Charleston's Catfish Row. This time, though, his problem was harder. His actors had to be singers, trained to time themselves to the subtlest beat. To match the Gershwin counter point, Mamoulian planned counterpoint in movement which would have the effect of a dramatic ballet. Porgy was to start one song...
...depict a U. S. scene in a purely U. S. way," George Gershwin worked earnestly for two years, visited Charleston, for local atmosphere, closeted himself in his penthouse apartment for five hours a day, composed steadily in town throughout the summer, clad in beach shorts and shirt. From the beginning he was determined to have his opera indigenous to the U. S. He was fascinated by the beauty of Negro singing, the spontaneity of Negro acting. Said he: "They've tried the Indian dozens of times but unfortunately with little success...
What the Adamses are to Boston, the Biddles to Philadelphia, the Pinckneys to Charleston, the Nevins are to Sewickley, Pa., smart suburb of Pittsburgh. So numerous are Nevins, rich ones and poor ones, that Sewickley churchgoers, according to local legend, sometimes start their prayers thus: "Our Father, who art a Nevin." Most famed of the tribe was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer of The Rosary, who died in 1901. First biography of Nevin was written by Vance Thompson (1913). Published this week was a bigger & better job, Ethelbert Nevin* by John Tasker Howard (Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour...