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...Boston Symphony came last week to Manhattan-with Serge Koussevitzky for conductor, Contralto Margarete Matzenauer, Tenor Tudor Davies, Baritone Fraser Gange for soloists, the Harvard Glee Club for a Chorus, and Speaker Paul Leyssac. This combination gave, as it did a fortnight ago in Boston (TIME, Mar. 5), the Œdipus Rex of Igor Stravinsky. Even the ablest critics sometimes disagree. Said Samuel Chotzinov (the World): ". . . a desperate attempt at a musical interpretation of lofty cosmic tragedy . . . a presumptuous drive with nothing of any consequence to back...
...Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus. But they wore only conventional concert dress. They were forbidden to do any business, or to create any illusion. Illusion was to be the monopoly of the self-sufficient music. His music was to be absolutely untranslatable into program...
...pioneer woman selected was not the ugly one executed by Mahonri Young; it was not the demure one executed by Jo Davidson; it was not the brawny one of James Earle Fraser, nor the placid one of Arthur Lee, nor the fragile one of F. Lynn Jenkins. Nor was it Maurice Sterne's, Hermon A. MacNeil's, Alexander Stirling Calder's, although these artists too were among those who made models for the competition...
...School, Chairman: Joseph H. Appel, Advertising Manager, John Wanamaker. New York: Neil H. Borden '22, Assistant Professor of Advertising in the Business School; Frank Braucher, Advertising Director of the Crowell Publishing Company, New York; G. M. Burbach, Advertising Manager of the St. Loupis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis; J. K. Fraser, of The Blackman Company Advertising Agency, New York; G. B. Hotchkiss, Professor of Marketing, New York University; H. L. Johnson, President of the Graphic Arts Company, Boston; T. J. McManis, Assistant Manager of Publicity Department, General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York; E. T. Singleton, Evans-Winter-Hebb, incorporated, Advertising, Detroit...
...that moment the conference saw a strange sight. Leaning on the arm of Viscount Curzon-was Captain Ian Fraser, a blinded young war veteran. Slowly the two moved through the 3,500 assembled Conservative delegatives to the rostrum. Then, standing sightless, Captain Fraser made a two minute speech in which he put forward a stirring plea for faith in young British womanhood...