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...Francisco Symphony, under Composer-Conductor Meredith Willson, played a work listed in the program as Prelude to The Great Dictator, by Charlie Chaplin. The program was not quite accurate. Actor Chaplin made up the four themes of the Prelude ("Invasion of Osterlich," "Hanah Theme," "Barber Shop Theme," "Charlie Motif"), but the music was fashioned, and orchestrated, by Composer Willson. Although Actor Chaplin always writes music for his films, this was the first to be performed in concert. Said the critics: "Obvious as most satirical attempts. . . . Interesting. ... A pleasant trifle. ... It cannot claim to be concert music...
Snapped by the fashion photographer with a young demoiselle, also clad in the taller, slimmer motif except for a certain softness through the bodice to give becoming, feminine lines, the Glamour Boy of Leverett House was theoretically demonstrating how men's clothes are influencing the fall female wardrobe...
...gala program included a buffet luncheon, an afternoon celebration in honor of the University, and an evening of entertainment with a Crimson motif. In addition the Dodgem, nerve-wracking midway attraction in which one uses a little car to inflict damage on one's best friends, was opened free of charge all day to all Harvard men through the kindness of a member of the class...
...program, which includes everything from speeches by Yale and Princeton men to an evening display with a "Crimson H" motif is scheduled for tomorrow, when the entire congregation of the Associated Harvard Clubs migrate to Flushing to attend Harvard Day at the World's Fair...
...with a story in it. This preference, a by-product of the modern fetish of realism, is responsible for the continued popularity of tone-poems and ballet-music. A lusty theme for the hero, a gentle little melody for his lady-love, a spinning theme and perhaps a brook motif: these seem irresistible to American audiences...