Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stolen from Columbia University Oct. 24 was the manuscript of Vol. II of Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering, lent for exhibition by its owner John Pierpont Morgan...
...Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese waltz to give it soul...
...Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese waltz to give it soul...
Chicago intelligentsia have long been aware of Mrs. Hutchins' psychological drawings, compositions of nude female figures drawn "with a blank mind," with no conscious effort, which she calls "dialectic" drawings.* At various parties last winter she showed them to friends, with a magic lantern and a typewritten manuscript of stage directions and remarks, while her friend Professor Mortimer Adler of her husband's psychology department attempted to clear things up by reciting explanatory poems in free verse. A typical Adler...
Poems and drawings made up the book privately printed last week. Most popular of the dialectic drawings is one Mrs. Hutchins calls "An Apple a Day" (see-cut). At private performances this is shown in four positions, including upside down. Wrote Mrs. Hutchins on the edge of her manuscript after the first showing, "This caused a mild clapping for some reason...