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...editor ef the New York Times, Editor Edmond William Nicholls of Bookseller & Collector wrote about dial telephones as follows: "The telephone authorities have presented us with an excellent plaything and aid to memory. ... If I want to call a number such as MUrray Hill 4-9867, I have not to memorize it. I just dial 'Mugwump' and it comes at once. Ravenswood 8-7243 Is 'Sausage.' Columbus 5-0639 is too much to carry in the mind at one time, so I dial 'Boloney' and get it swiftly. . . . My only regret is I cannot do anything better than 'Plesido' with...
April 21?Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex; at Manhattan. Production jointly by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra Association. Scenic designs by Robert Edmond Jones. Radio by National Broadcasting system...
April 10-13-Production of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, jointly by League of Composers and Philadelphia Orchestra Association; at Philadelphia. Direction: Leopold Stokowski. Scenic designs: Robert Edmond Jones. Chorus: Princeton University. April 21-Oedipus Rex in Manhattan. Direction by Stokowski; chorus from Harvard. April 23-25-Festival of chamber music; at Washington, D. C. Sponsor: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. April 27-Opening of London opera season; at Covent Garden...
...Whence came it, this meteorite? From Paris. ... Its aim? To do a series of 24 portraits in lithograph. . . . He was 21 years old. He wore spectacles that flashed more than any pair ever seen. He was a wit. He was brimful of ideas. He knew Whistler. He knew Edmond de Goncourt. He knew everyone in Paris. He knew them all by heart. He was Paris in Oxford...
...dissonances to be expected of a pupil of modernistic Arnold Schönberg. There were no conventional harmonies, no set songs. Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff (Wozzeck) sometimes spoke, sometimes sang his lines. Soprano Anne Roselle (Marie, Wozzeck's mistress) had music so hideously difficult that it defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon of colored lights for a beer garden; a street in the town...