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...weeks ago, however, when Fabien Sevitzky played Barrymore's Partita with the Indianapolis Symphony. And last week Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra through a broadcast of Barrymore's In Memoriam, a warm, romantic, ingratiating tone poem dedicated to brother John. In connection with the broadcast, several hitherto unpublicized facts appeared: 1) Lionel Barrymore has been composing for the past 40 years; 2) he is as well acquainted with the techniques of composition as many a professional; 3) his unpublished compositions are numbered in the hundreds and include works for everything from solo oboe to full symphony orchestra...
...Hitherto the Chagfield by-election has been a straight contest between 91-year-old Ambrose Fogge and six-year-old Master Tony Colt. But a Woman's Defence League candidate has stepped in, to demand equal hasps for wives, in order to end the serfdom of married women. This will probably have no effect on the election, as nobody knows what it means. . . . But everyone is rallying to youth. 'Experience isn't everything,' said Master Colt's nurse yesterday. 'Nor is inexperience,' replied Mr. Fogge's nurse...
...word went round that Governor Tom Dewey, the glistening dark horse who pretends to be invisible, would make a "significant" political speech. His own assistants passed the word. (This was a change in Dewey technique; hitherto newsmen have been cautioned before each Dewey utterance: don't try to find any significance; the Governor is merely tending to his state knitting.) For his venture into significance, Tom Dewey chose as a date his 42nd birthday; as the place, the ninth annual prize exhibit of New York news photographers...
...unofficial defeat of the Lowellmen on Tuesday at the hands of the hitherto impotent ASTP team, 31 to 17, accentuates the impression. This levelling out of the positions will no doubt increase the competition and give most of the teams a chance to come...
Last month Manhattan's small, exclusive Dial Press announced that it would soon publish the original version of one of the century's most blush-provoking literary works. This hitherto unpublished draft of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the late David Herbert Lawrence's distinguished novel about a titled lady who deserted her aristocratic but impotent husband for the family gamekeeper, will be issued next month in a first printing of 15,000 copies at $2.75 the copy...