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...York Better Business Bureau asked the Committee to moderate its claims (which it did). But the Committee's discs are by no means bad, may well increase U. S. music appreciation. Among the recording artists are Metropolitan Opera Tenors Armand Tokatyan and Raoul Jobin, Basso Norman Cordon. Among the operas so far released, Carmen is the best; Faust is a series of seemingly arbitrary selections. For each opera the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff has written readable notes...
...Cole Porter's best songs. Last year Bert Lahr's contortions replaced Durante's wheezings and the resultant "DuBarry Was a Lady" was as much a hit as its predecessor. And now the Shubert stage has DeSylva's latest offering, with Miss Merman the lone star, surrounded by a cordon of well-known and capable performers drawn from the stage, screen and good old-fashioned burlesque...
Outside stood the cordon of soldiers keeping back the curious crowds trampling the spring flowers in Joseph's garden. One soldier, as though repeating a rehearsed speech, explained over and over again: "His disciples stole the body while we slept...
...highest honors the Chinese Government may bestow on a foreigner came last week to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Jr., national chairman of the United Council for Civilian Relief in China. Presentation: the Grand Cordon Bleu of the Order of Jade, at the hands of Ambassador Hu Shih in Manhattan...
...Montevideo, enthusiastic native thousands pressed through a police cordon to get a good look at Ajax's two smashed gun turrets, to mend which she must go home to Britain. They goggled at the gap where a German shell tore through the cabin of Commodore (now Rear Admiral and Sir) Henry Harwood, smashed his bathroom, wiped out his wardrobe...