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When in 1928 Jules Falk, a Philadelphia musician, proposed a summer season of translated opera at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, the Pier's President, Frank Gravatt, was leery of it. But Director Falk went ahead with his plan, put on Pagliacci and one act of Boris Godounoff in English. The double bill, given in one of the gigantic Pier's five theatres, went over so well that opera in English became a permanent feature of Atlantic City's summer-season...
Martin D. Schwartz '38 heads a committee composed of J. Carter Dinwiddie '40, Horace R. Falk '38, William C. Hurtt '40, George F. Lowman '38, John F. McClure '39, and H. Putnam Williams...
...Cohan, Lynn Fontaine, Walter Hampden, Helen Hayes, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred Lunt, actors; John Gasson, John Hanrahan, Joseph Wood Krutch, Burns Mantle, Ruth Pickering, critics and editors; Edward Goodman, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Worthington Miner, Philip Moeller, Antoinette Perry, Leo Strasborg, directors; A. M. Drummond of Cornell University, SamSawyer Falk, of Syracuse University, Garrett H. Leverton of Northwestern University, E. C. Mabie of the University of Iowa, Allardyce Nicoll of Yale University, Frank Hurburt O'Hara of the University of Chicago, Arthur Hobson Quinn of the University of Pennsylvania, Randolph Somerville of New York University, educators...
POWER - Edwin A. Falk - Longmans, Green ($4). When Wallace Irwin wrote his popular Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy in 1907 he called his hero Hashimura Togo-a name obliquely familiar to most U. S. newspaper readers. But when Count Togo Heihachiro, onetime Admiral of the Imperial Fleet, died in 1934, only Japanese schoolboys still remembered the details of his famed victories. Last week Biographer Falk, himself a onetime sea dog, paid Admiral Togo's career the meticulous sympathy of one naval officer for another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern...
...chief recreation is his herd of milk goats. Goat milk is valuable in the treatment of certain infants' diseases, and anyone with a sick child can call at General Falk's farm and get without charge all the goats' milk he can carry away...