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That afternoon C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, 49, walked across the street to Lewisohn Stadium to review a drill of the college's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. When he reached the entrance with his military science department head, Colonel George Chase Lewis, and other guests, he found a Pacifist crowd blocking his way. They jostled him, pinioned his arms for a moment. Then he raised his umbrella, flayed left & right, soon lost his umbrella. Police drove a flying wedge into the mob, surrounded...
...courtroom. A large matronly woman with two grown children, she cannot be made to testify against her husband, may not be called to testify for him. Long an amateur pianist she once orchestrated a Chopin Polonaise for a Philharmonic-Symphony Concert in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. In a Press interview two years ago she diffidently admitted that she and her friends were trying "to make music a part of life again...
...AMERICAN JITTERS-Edmund Wilson-Scribner ($2.50). EXPRESSION IN AMERICA - Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($4). DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner ($3.50). FOCH- Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart- Little, Brown ($4). GEORGE GERSHWIN'S SONGBOOK - illustrated by Alajalov - Simon & ($5)- GROVER CLEVELAND - Allan Nevins Dodd, Mead ($5). HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Vol. I. - Leon Trotsky - Simon & Schuster ($4). INTERPRETATIONS - Walter Lippmann Macmillan ($2.50). JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - Matthew Josephson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). THE JOURNAL OF ARNOLD BENNETT Vols. I & II- Viking ($4 each). THE LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE edited by Aldous Huxley - Viking ($5). LIVES - Gustav Eckstein - Harper...
...concertgoers have seen many "Duncan Dancers." New to the Lewisohn Stadium was the group which performed last week: large-legged Irma Duncan and her Isadora Duncan dancers, known simply as Ruth, Sima, Julia, Hortense, Minna and Raya. For them a stage was built in the Stadium, a lattice set up to conceal the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Barefoot, clad in flowing Greek garments, they performed Tchaikovsky's "Pathetic" Symphony, two Slavonic Dances of Dvorak, the rollicking Dance of the Apprentices from Wagner's Die Meister singer. Then Irma Duncan, most active exponent of Isadora's tradition. danced...
EXPRESSION IN AMERICA-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($4). W7hen scripture became only literature. Literatus Lewisohn avers, "it was necessary for literature to become scripture." Modern literati are no mere craftsmen, do not play the beaux to pretty Belles Lettres. They must be poets "whom the thoughtful and instructed modern reader seeks out to experience for him. to interpret for him, to illuminate and to guide him, to face for him the inscrutable. . . ." With such vicarious help, common-or-garden men, in order to climb heavenward, need only keep their glasses polished and read the scriptures as they come.* In his impressions...