Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago Mrs. John T. McCullough was occupied mostly in being a Greenwich, Conn. housewife, bringing up her eight-year-old son, raising Boxer dogs, and when she had time, listening to good music. She subscribed, in fact, to a three-concert winter series to be given by the Greenwich Community Concert Association...
...Words & Music...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt got around to the opening of the Metropolitan Opera (see Music) even though it meant her first public appearance in a wheelchair. When 30 photographers swooped down on her and let go with flashbulbs, she brandished her cane and cried: "I ought to take this to you." Carleton Smith, director of the National Arts Foundation, who escorted Mrs. Vanderbilt to the opening, said she had decided to attend only after he told her that Queen Mary, who recently gave him an audience in England, had remarked sadly that "so few were left to uphold tradition...
...folksy side, the show has some agreeable music and peppy dancing, but nothing better; and as if Texas weren't big enough, it makes several fumbling forays across the state line into Oklahoma!. The show is actually best when it has a straight Broadway blare and stomp and when the cast, which could use more personal glamour, can show its professional savvy. Somehow Texas just can't find the right girl or gag in the pinches; it dawdles when it needs to spurt, and turns cheap when it ought to be charming...
Author Bowles, 38, a composer and former music critic, has lived since 1947 in the casbah of Tangier. His little-magazine verse and a handful of short stories had already won him cheers from Manhattan's horizon-watching literati. The Sheltering Sky, with its mixture of emotional nausea, intellectual despair and desert primitivism, will come close to justifying their hopes...