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Last March ten colleges met at Wellesley for an assembly, and one of the four "Russian delegates", Robert H. Langaton '53, walked out on a committee on Human Rights. According to U.N. Council president Hugh J. Schwartzberg '53, Langston was quickly followed by a rather wondering girl from Pine Manor--the Polish representative...
Walter C. Carrington '52, president: John T. White '52, vice-president; Robert E. Spindle '52, secretary; Robert Langston '53, treasurer; Gerald Levinson '53, political action committee; M. Joel Mandelbaum '53, Harvard affairs committee...
Negro Poet Langston Hughes seldom wrote anything more simple and effective than his poem Cross. Some people liked it so well that he turned it into a play, Mulatto, and it ran on Broadway for more than a year in 1935-36. Two years ago, when German-born Composer Jan Meyerowitz, of the Berkshire Music Center, asked him for a modern opera libretto, Poet Hughes reached for his Cross again. Last week audiences at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Hall heard the two-act result, The Barrier...
...children, he even fashioned miniature sets for his operas in his Los Angeles home. Some of the operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given up, but I have exercised an enormous amount of determination...
...Still way is scratching out only a few bars a day in his modest Los Angeles home. His great enthusiasm is opera: he has written four, but none has ever been published. One of them, Troubled Island, with a libretto adapted from a play by Poet Langston Hughes, was rejected by the Metropolitan, says Still, because it called for an all-Negro cast. "They never heard of makeup, I guess...