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Rochester, N. Y., where he teaches opera in the Eastman School of Music; Hollywood, in whose famed Bowl he is to conduct concerts and "concertized opera" this summer; and England, where he is a member of the Royal College of Musicians, all sat up last week to take notice of Composer Eugene Goossens' new opera, Judith. England sat up the most sharply because the premiere was at Covent Garden and because it was the first all-British opera in a long time. Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett wrote the libretto and beamed from a box, while Composer Goossens bowed from...
Chautauqua. Last week Chautauqua Institute opened its 56th annual session on the shores of Chautauqua Lake, N. Y. Some 300 varied programs will be crowded into an eight-week season, including 41 symphony concerts, eight popular operas in English. Conductor: Albert Frederic Stoessel of Manhattan's Oratorio Society...
Propaganda. For many a month N. E. A. members have waited for their association's formal statement about propaganda in the schools. Chief alleged propagandizers: public utility corporations, which have been accused of bribing teachers, changing text books to make private ownership of such utilities seem desirable to students, future voters. Last November, the N. E. A. appointed a committee to investigate. Last week the committee's chairman, Philadelphia Superintendent of Schools Edwin Cornelius Broome. reported that "efforts are being made from a wide variety of sources to advertise commercial products, advance special interests, and to propagate particular...
Prohibition. The conference was opened by N. E. A.'s President Uel Walter Lamkin. His message and plea: there should be no Federal dictation in educational matters. Thus, curtly, was dismissed the suggestion that all U. S. educators use Prohibition propaganda in their schools and text books (see p. 10). That Federal project had given N. E. A. members something new to think about. For years the N. E. A. has advocated the establishment of a U. S. Department of Education with a representative in the Cabinet. How much more likely, wondered observers, would the Government be to "dictate...
...Pocantico Hills, N. Y., is an estate called "Kijkuit" (Dutch for "Keep Out"). There, in the summertime, behind stone walls, barbed wire and grilled iron, lives the Richest Man. Thither he returned last week from Lakewood, N. J., his annual intermediate stop between the North and Florida. The bed from which he rises at 7 is crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin...