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...MAYER MELTZER...
Malcolm A. Hoffman '34, and Seymour Peyser '34, will represent Harvard in a debate this afternoon at 3 o'clock with the University of Chicago over the network of the Columbia Broadcasting Company. Vernon Lyon and Bernard Meltzer of Chicago will take the affirmative of the question, "Resolved: That a College Education is Worth While." The Harvard team will speak from WNAC in Boston, and the Chicago debaters from the Columbia Studies in Chicago. Raymond Moley, editor of "Today," will act as chairman...
Once, taking a dislike to the music critic's hair, he cabled: "Tell Meltzer to cut his hair." Further exchanges of cables found Meltzer with hair still uncut. Bennett cabled: "Send him to St. Petersburg...
...translations of Meltzer were adept, painstaking, vigorous; they paraphrased the originals as closely as it is possible for the verse of one country to paraphrase that of another. Nevertheless, they were abominable poetry Some of the lines possessed a certain insipid grace; far more of them had the stilted, fustian air that can only be characterized by the adjective "operatic." Such lines as "Naught my sweetheart from me shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely...
...librettos. Yet U. S. audiences, hearing opera in French, German, Russian, Italian, care little. They, sensitive to poetry though unlearned in languages, can taste in the language of imagination the exquisite words which should properly accompany exquisite music. Little desiring opera in English, these operagoers read with indignation Critic Meltzer's plea, looked with scorn upon his competent translations...