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...Sturdy little Owen S. Gibson, 69, onetime Chautauqua performer, onetime plumber and builder, used to think that Townsendism was the biggest thing in his life. But now Owen Gibson works at Douglas Aircraft's big Long Beach plant, on a "burr bench," where he files the rough edges off machined airplane parts. Says he: "I haven't been so active in the club since working here. This is all-important-the other isn't so important...
...Chicago's North Shore; Chicago's free Grant Park concerts (for which the Chicago Federation of Musicians is putting up $48,000); Detroit's Belle Isle nights of music; Boston's Esplanade concerts, following the springtime "Pops"; summer music at the fusty, 69-year-old Chautauqua (N.Y.) assembly; others in many a U.S. city...
...pretty, American musicomedy star with a headful of russet red curls, Miss Hayworth meets Dresser on the Chautauqua circuit, irks him to Manhattan, sings his songs, falls in & out of love with him to the final fadeout. Director Cummings never lets these familiar tactics grow tiresome. Blessed with some truly imaginative and exciting sets, some of the best musical arrangements of this or any other season, a powderbox-full of new dance routines, inspired costuming, he manages to make the gaslight era seem just around a very inviting corner...
...American sculptures, adding up to a total of 17 pieces, Donor Norton felt he had done his bit for the museum's sculpture. He still cocks a collector's eye at new pictures: a good new American can even lure him out of his summer fastness at Chautauqua, N.Y., where he has sailed his boats and presided over the Board of Trustees since...
Died. Dr. George Edgar Vincent, 76, third president of the University of Minnesota (1911-17), former president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1917-29), president and honorary president of Chautauqua (which his father founded) from 1907 to 1937; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...