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...Society in 1842. The piano and vocal pieces offered here will strike some listeners as benign imitations of Haydn and early Beethoven. Yet compared with the efforts of other American composers at the time, they are notable in their harmonic freedom, improvisatory style and whimsical subject matter. Epitaph on Joan Duff, for example, is the sweet-and-sour tale of a woman who took a pinch of snuff and sneezed herself to death. This is fascinating Americana, but it is a pity that printed texts of the songs are not provided...
Thus, several women have concluded that the Class of '49 was in many ways conservative. The Crimson--which had just elected its first "Radcliffe correspondent," Joan McPartin Mahoney--reported a series of stories on the Red Menace in the spring of '49. But several women said last week that though the concern with politics was there, it didn't have a significant influence on their lives until a few years after college...
...Leon Syndrome: Careful study of persons like Joan Crawford and Zsa Zsa Gabor will indicate that no one grows old anymore. The same observation can be confirmed by scrutiny of the "then" and "now" photographs in the 25th Anniversary Report of the Harvard College Class of 1949. "Youth's a stuff will not endure," wrote George Orwell in his essay on "The Art of Donald McGill," but that prediction may well prove less accurate, in the long run, than his views...
Strange Cargo. One of Frank Borzage's (Seventh Heaven) presumably sentimental and presumably wonderful old pictures. Made in 1940 with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Peter Lorre...
...cloudland of the '30s and '40s when every performer was expected to carry a tune. In Born to Dance, Jimmy Stewart reaches for a high note and almost pulls it down; Clark Gable gives Idiot's Delight its few moments of radiance; a klutzy but indomitable Joan Crawford steps her way up from The Hollywood Revue...