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Lawrence Binyon, noted British scholar and author, has been named holder of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry for the year 1933-34 to succeed T. S. Eliot '10, the present holder, it was announced last night...
Last spring when Congress was levying taxes right & left in its last-minute effort to balance the budget, the man who lobbied most diligently to prevent a tax on symphony orchestra tickets was Lawyer Willis Irving Norton, Republican leader in Minnesota's House of Representatives. Lawyer Norton won his case. Orchestras were spared the tax, stayed classified as educational institutions...
This winter out front in the musical scene has been Lawyer Norton's daughter Eunice, 24-year-old pianist. She has soloed in competent if not peerless fashion with the big orchestras in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Manhattan. Last week, impressed by her season's record (untouched by any other U. S. woman pianist), Manhattan critics went to see what Eunice Norton would do in a Town Hall recital...
...slight, cropped-haired person in a red brocaded dress. But Eunice Norton compassed it all neatly. Her fingers traveled easily and accurately through Bach's E Minor French Suite, clearly traced its complicated, interweaving patterns. The Andante from Weber's lovely, slightly faded A Flat Sonata was played with a tenderness surprising in a young person who by temperament seemed better suited to the brittle, contrapuntal ways of Hindemith...
...Lowell House, "Why! Whoever heard of that man?" ... A. L. Putnam '20, Consultant on Careers, "The future is fraught with contradictory possibilities. ... Life contains few straight lines... We will make an appointment for you." ... The Chicago Tribune, "We told you so stop." ... T. S. Eilot '10, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Pertry, "Co co ri co co rico, da datta, had a bad cold, J. Sweeney, hic jacet...