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...whom should the statue represent? ''We have too many Washingtons," wrote the captain firmly on May 11, 1855. "We have America in the pediment. Victories and Liberties are rather pagan emblems, but a Liberty, I fear, is the best we can get." And so Sculptor Thomas Crawford set to work in his studio in Rome. The model he made was nearly lost at sea. but eventually his 14,985-lb. statue, cast in bronze, was raised by steam hoist to its permanent perch. It is the strange figure that looms behind the heads of Senator Margaret Chase Smith...
...Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet (Amati String Quartet; Columbia). Ruth Seeger, who died in 1953, was one of the U.S.'s few women composers to develop a voice of her own. As demonstrated in this early work, it was compounded of boldly skittering rhythms, moderately fiery dissonances and occasional snatches of homely but not folksy melody. The quartet reads her strongly and well...
...best-known flophouse, the Crawford, has burned down, and the Old Howard is dead, which leaves nothing but two unappealing (and expensive) "nightclubs", sundry pinball arcades, and an all night movie house called the Rialto...
Last week the existence of the Kern subtreasury was made public. With the permission of the composer's family. Theatrical Producer Cheryl Crawford announced plans for a new Broadway play. No. 93 with music by Jerome Kern. The book will be adapted by Playwright Ketti Frings from her 1941 screenplay Hold Back the Dawn; the lyrics will be written by Dorothy (Annie Get Your Gun) Fields...
...Kern's estate waited so long to cash in on the contents of the safe? "Miss Crawford offers the auspices we have waited for,'' said Kern's daughter (wife of Hollywood Producer Jack Cummings). "After all, the songs are no good in a bureau drawer." It was possible, too, suggested his longtime collaborator, P. G. Wodehouse, that the melodies-until now heard only by a handful of people-would turn out to be something less than Golden Bantam Kern...