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Other laurels must go to the able dramatic directing of S. Leonard Kent, the conducting and music directing of Malcolm Holmes, and to the stage designer John Holabird, whose brilliant sets perform miracles in creating an atmosphere of gaiety. The opera itself, ideally suited to the production it gets here, and unencumbered by the artificialities that made Handel and Purcell so fussy to stage, may unhesitatingly by classed as the Society's most triumphant venture to date, something to take pleasure in now, and something to look back on in years to come when such productions may no longer...
Died. Sidney R. Kent, 56, super-salesman of the cinema industry, president of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A onetime laborer and surveyor, he offered to work free for Famous Players-Lasky on a trial basis, within ten years was general manager. In 1932 he was called to take charge of tottering Fox Films, three years later was made president of the newly formed 20th Century-Fox at some $200,000 a year. In defense of the industry's high salaries, he once submitted: "It may be more money than bank presidents...
Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley College orchestras will direct the musical portions of the opera. The production committee is headed by Gifford and includes S. Leonard Kent '43, John A. Holabird '42, William M. Green '42, John E. Sawhill '43, Thomas Matters '43, and Niles Chubb '43, all of Lowell House...
...Kent Cooper, 61-year-old general manager of the Associated Press, had his third song played over the air (America Needs You), took his third wife...
...Married. Kent Cooper, 61, general manager of the Associated Press; and Sarah A. Gibbs, 40, his onetime secretary; he for the third time; in Manhattan...