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...HEART OF BURROUGHS'S JOURNALS - Edited by Clara Barrus - Houghton Mifflin ($3.00). The daughter of Burroughs's physician and confidant chooses widely and wisely from the autobiographical notes of the great naturalist, friend of Whitman...
...Herbert Hoover watched Stanford beat Santa Clara in Palo Alto...
...Metropolitan Opera Company feeds the public a big human interest story. Three years ago it was Sopranos Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Last year it was Soprano Grace Moore. All were "poor girls" who had their dreams, worked hard, lived right. This year so far honors go to Soprano Clara Jacobo, 28, daughter of an Italian grocer, who made her debut last week in Il Trovatore...
...public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile mill, nights in a store, saved every penny until, with what she earned singing in the Holy Rosary Church choir and what her mother could give her secretly, there was enough...
...Singer. Poor girls who work hard, live right, do not always develop into great singers. Marion Talley disappointed. So did Mary Lewis, Grace Moore. But Clara Jacobo promises better things. She has at least, contrary to her predecessors, a mighty voice that fills the far crannies of the opera house. She has had operatic experience, sings and moves with an assurance that projects over the footlights. Her first Leonora quavered occasionally, strayed a bit from the pitch but critics took it all kindly, as part of a debut performance, voted her a useful addition to the Metropolitan roster...