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Signor Marinetti's original, epochal "Futurist Manifesto" was published by Le Figaro of Paris. Last week his new manifesto appeared in Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin...
Richard Strauss' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Walter Straram and Orchestre des Concerts Straram (Columbia, $6) - Deft, charming character-sketches, written by Strauss as incidental music for Moliëre's comedy, expertly performed by the famed French orchestra annually at the Théâtre des Champs-Elys...
Naturalists have long been interested in the strange animals of Australia, the duck-billed platypus, spiny Australian anteater, the kangaroo, wombat, emu, casowary. Last week, Albert Sherbourne Le Souëf, zoölogist of Taronga Zoölogical Park, Sydney, told Australian naturalists of a huge newly discovered catlike marsupial with striped stomach seeen in mountainous Queensland districts. Said he: "I am positive Australia will present another zoölogical curiosity to the world...
...Onondagas when the State purchased from them the site of the City of Syracuse in 1795. Reason for the salt: within the area of 10 sq. mi. originally purchased was all the salt in that region. The Indians apparently .had done without salt until 1654, when Jesuit Missionary Simon le Moyne discovered that a spring from which the natives would not drink, thinking evil spirits gave it its stench, was a fountain of salt brine. Once salt was the leading product of the Syracuse district. Now no salt is manufactured there, but brine from the deposits is pumped...
Seventeen years ago the primitive, pagan rhythms of Le Sacre du Printemps established Russian Igor Stravinsky as the most original, most compelling of modern composers. Last week in Boston his Symphonic de Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms), in spirit far removed from his sensual celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant...