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Frank Dobie once rather embarrassedly confessed that he had preferred teaching to ranching because he liked the trembling sensations which English lyric poetry aroused in him. He is the nearest thing the Southwest has to a cultural voice. When he proposed to the English faculty a course in the literature of Texas and the Southwest, he was refused on the grounds that the Southwest had no literature. He forthwith proposed a course in Life and Literature of the Southwest, "guaranteeing that we at least had life," and has been teaching it, to thousands, for years. Gripes...
...Concert Master: Gilbert and Sullivan 8:30 A program of Ballads: Wallace Stegner, Instructor in English. 8:45 Frannie Powers, Mike Brody, and others in return engagements with Wheaton field hockey team. 9:00 Hot Off the Record. 9:30 Radio Workshop Production. 9:45 Crimson Concert Hall: Grieg, Lyric Suite. Corelli, Christmas Concerto. Spanish Civil War Songs. 10:45 Bed Time Story. 10:55 News...
Athenians and Londoners danced a new step last week, the "Tuscana." C. L. ("Lambeth Walk") Heimann and Lyric Writer Eric Maschwitz created the new "Wop Trot," named for the "Wolves of Tuscany." Basic movement: one step forward, two back. Chorus...
Writers of The Free Company contribute their services gratis, with CBS underwriting all other costs, including the expense of short-waving the show to Latin America. The Bill of Rights provides a pattern for the series. Following Saroyan's lyric outbursts on illuminated Americans, Robert Sherwood will dwell on freedom of the press, Marc Connelly on freedom to teach, Orson Welles on freedom of assembly, Archibald MacLeish on freedom of speech, Paul Green on racial freedom. Filling out the broadcasts, now designed to run 13 weeks, will be scripts on freedom in general by Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson...
Painters Merida and Cantú have done little fresco painting, but they are loud in their praise of Compatriots Rivera, Orozco, Siquieros. Says Merida: "They are three great painters, but the plastic expression of each is different. Diego makes politics in his pictures, Orozco is more poetic and lyric, Siquieros continues to be a great painter in spite of his politics." Cantú would have liked to do frescos, but says he got no commissions from the Mexican Government because he refused to paint Christ with the head of a donkey saints with the heads of pigs. "Although...