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Deems Taylor: Through the Looking Glass (Columbia Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). A well-known, light, agreeable suite by the most successful of contemporary U. S. highbrow composers. U. S.-born Conductor Barlow makes his phonographic bow, does an excellent...
Among the undergraduate literary lights in the bright Harvard Class of 1910, Heywood Broun was a mere twinkle. He wrote for the highbrow Advocate, but was not elected to its board. His serious classmate Walter Lippmann made the heavy Monthly (now defunct). Rustic Stuart Chase wrote nothing but routine essays for professors. Ebullient John Reed made both the Monthly and the whimsical Lampoon. Beefy Hamilton Fish Jr. was in the literary Signet Society, partly because he was football captain. Brightest light of all was Thomas Stearns Eliot - he was taken into the two literary clubs, Stylus and Signet, was secretary...
Graham is a one-class outfit, its three body styles with slick highbrow radiator fronts and no running boards. Price: $965. For $130 extra, it may be had with custom appointments or supercharger equipment that steps the basic 90 h. p. up to 116. Optional is a steering-post gearshift...
...believe it is a very excellent idea to have the Noble lectures especially for university men". Dean Matthews said, referring to Dean Sperry's reversal of the usual practice. "They lectures I gave ten years ago were so very profound and highbrow...
Negro composers of jazz music, like W. C. Handy and Duke Ellington, have long taken top honors in their field, have long been street-corner names in the U. S. Practically unknown to the U. S. man in the street is the music of their highbrow Negro brethren. Known or not, however, much of it is equal to the best that is being written by U. S. white composers. Most prominent among such Negro composers are Los Angeles' sober-minded William Grant Still (Afro-American Symphony), Tuskegee, Ala.'s William Levi Dawson (Negro Folk Symphony), and Greensboro...