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IMPORT BANS against foreign-made men's and boys' clothing are being instituted by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Union invoked contract clause that prohibits makers from handling apparel not made within union jurisdiction, will force three large New York-based chains-Ripley, Howard, Crawford (totaling 177 stores)-to halt imports of West German woolen loden coats...
...Adrian set the pace for women's fashions across the U.S. and even to Paris, made Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that any right-thinking woman would have given her eyeteeth...
...Crawford was in especially good voice on this occasion. Her voice is not large, but it is appealing in quality--and particularly well suited to the Debussy peces. She spun some beautiful pianissimo tones in the upper middle range. Her only weakness is in notes above high G-sharp, which tend to come out either edgy or breathy. In all the songs John Crawford, her husband, provided exemplary accompaniments...
Debussy turned out to be the old fogy at the concert that took place in Sanders Theatre on Monday evening before an audience of about 350 persons. Sponsored by the Summer School, a program mainly devoted to early 20th-century works was performed by soprano Dorothy Crawford and pianists Bruce Archibald and John Crawford...
...Crawford sang a half dozen Hungarian folk-songs in the richly colored arrangements made by Bartok in 1929. Most of these were melancholy in subject and in treatment; and she captured their moods admirably. She did a group of five Webern songs, dating from 1909-1917. Webern had not yet evolved the highly atomized style that has, for good or (probably) bad, made him the No.1 idol of the young fry among today's composers. With the exception of the moving "Kahl reckt der Baum" (to words of Stephan George), these songs did not seem worth writing down...