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...G. Wallace Woodworth '24 succeeded Davison as conductor of the chorus as he was later to succeed him as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music. But under the present conductor of the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch, the Glee Club and choral society will never again perform pieces in the same grandiose manner to which they became accustomed under Koussevitzky. The change came in 1950, shortly before they were to assist the BSO in a Pension Fund performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis...
Jupiter's Darling (M-G-M). Esther Williams' pictures are generally just so much water over the dame. This one tries to be different. Esther spends more than half of it on dry land. She even tries to act-a spectacle almost as alarming as that of the Burmese fish that climbs trees...
BERTIE WOOSTER SEES IT THROUGH (246 pp.) - P. G. Wodehouse- Simon & Schuster...
Still, while it lasts, the brush starts a fire in a frightfully brainy novel-writing number named Florence Craye and a slow burn in her brawny fiancé, G. D'Arcy (Stilton) Cheesewright. The subplots, all highly glutinous (sticky, to lesser men), involve 1) a pawned pearl necklace, 2) the sale by Aunt Dahlia* of a cherished weekly, 3) a blighter who writes poetry designed to produce persp. on any decent citizen's brow. The solutions developed in Jeeves's think-tank may seem a little watery to the highbrow-critic chaps. But looking at the rosier...
...members of the committee choosing Muir were Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; John P. Coolige '35, associate professor of Fine Arts; Renato Poggioli, professor of Slavic; Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature; and Huntington Cairns, director of the National Gallery in. Washington...