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Caterina Jarboro was born in Wilmington, N. C. of an Amerindian mother and a Negro father who worked as a barber. As a little girl she learned to moan the throaty melodies of her race, sang Gregorian chants in Latin in a Catholic choir. When her parents died she went to live with an aunt in Brooklyn, continued to sing in church at Sunday Mass, until Broadway's flair for Negro music resulted in Shuffle Along. Jarboro got a job in the chorus at $50 a week. Noticing that the other girl singers paid 50? for manicures, she learned...
...great drama of the Mass, through which runs a succession of solemn and joyful psalms, hymns and prayers, offers many a place for song where now no voice save that of the priest is raised. In austere, simple Gregorian chant the congregation may voice its faith more deeply and emotionally than any choir singing Bach or Beethoven. As the celebrant begins the Mass the people might intone a majestic Kyrie Eleison and then the Gloria which angels sang at Christ's birth. Just before the priest consecrates the Host there may be a full-voiced Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus...
...parts of the Soviet Union local peoples and tribes are not greatly molested by the Union of the Militant Godless, lest they rebel. Thus letters reaching Moscow last week from Erivan, capital of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia, announced that on Nov. 13 the Congress of the Armenian Gregorian Church met at Echmiadzin, with British, French and U. S. delegates present and elected a new Gregorian supreme head, the former Archbishop Horan Murad-pekian of Erivan who at once assumed the title of His Holiness the Catholicos...
...play these exaggerations made the action partly a parody of border romance. Because the cinema takes itself more seriously, the climax, where the millionaire lets the girl go in order to increase his selfesteem, seems out of character instead of gay and suitable. Del Rio chants, in almost Gregorian tones, such bits of pidgin slang as "You betcha my life." She photographs as beautifully as ever...
...sacred music will be introduced by a number of old French Christmas carols. These will be followed by Gregorian responses, 16th century motets, and psalms. After an intermission they will sing some 16th century madrigals and popular French and French- Canadian songs...