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...morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...
...Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...
...Father-in-law of Novelist Katherine Brush, author of Glitter and Little Sins...
...first novel, Glitter, got into cinema.* Little Sins looks like another sure-fire scenario but it is one of those rare books with more electricity in its pages than can ever be added to it in a projection room. Feeble Fantasy...
...RISE OP AMERICAN CIVILIZATION (2 vol.)-Charles A. & Mary R. Beard?Macmillan ($12.50). The history of a people burns in tiny villages, in towns, in lonely farms. Sparks and flames glitter between the hills and pepper the wide deserts of land, spinning together, breaking, flaring, in a bright, continuous, tangled pattern, like stars and planets...