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...Silken Curtain. In Sweden, where Wallace hopped next, he was received by a choir singing the U.S. national anthem. Ac Stockholm University's auditorium, a crowd of 1,000 people fought to get in for an hour before Wallace was scheduled to speak. But Wallace had gone to another auditorium, where a handful of people were waiting for another speaker, and started to speak before someone found him. There was something about Henry Wallace that bred disorder-even among the orderly Swedes...
...midnight, in his organ voice, the Patriarch chanted, "Christ is risen, Christ is risen," while the choir and the 7,000 took up the refrain. Light from the Patriarch's candle, touched quickly to a dozen others, spread through the nave. Gorgeous in his robes of silvered silk and wearing a pearl-and-diamond crown, the Patriarch swung his fragrant censer, blessed them...
...Gospel's have long been dramatized during Holy Week in a somewhat different way by the Catholic Church. One deacon chants the narrative passages, another the words of Christ, another all the other speeches; the choir portrays all crowds and assemblies...
Nose in the Air. Evelyn came to radio a roundabout way that began in Reedville, Va., where she sang in a Methodist choir, played Mabel in a high-school production of The Pirates of Penzance, and acquired an altitudinous nose-tilt that earned her the nickname "Little Miss God." After graduation, she breezed into Washington's Station WRC, asked for a singing job, and got one-a 10 a.m. spot twice a week over NBC. The pay: $16 a broadcast...
...received a great deal of refinement of interpretation especially by the trumpets made its New England debut, and Milhand's "Suite Francaise" had been played in this country only twice before. Two pleasant surprises were the muted trumpet sole in Morton Gould's "Pavanue," and the brass and reed choir effects in "Prayer of Thanksgiving." One of the high points in the way of intricate original arranging for which the Band is famous, was reached in the "Strike Up The Band" scoring for the clarinets...