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Whether Master Rooney is also chugging off to greater things remains to be seen. Because he is a manlier kid than any other who ever achieved stardom, his passage into maturity may not, as it has to others, mean his passage into professional oblivion. It is not conceivable that Jackie Cooper or Freddie Bartholomew might bloom into a Spencer Tracy. It is conceivable that Mickey might. If he does avoid the fate of Jackie Coogan, et al., he will have his Mom and the old theatrical trunk in which he was raised to thank, as well as his rough-&-tumble...
These are few of the reasons why the performance of Acis and Galatea tonight and Wednesday night at Lowell House is an event that should be of tremendous interest to all music lovers. In rescuing from almost total oblivion this example of what choral music can be, one of the world's greatest geniuses will be made to live again, something people should come miles to witness...
...that of Van Gogh to cause comment and comparison, while the few barns and houses which completed the landscape were sufficiently cubistic to inspire Cezannesque Colloquialisms on the part of any well-known critic. But for some vague reason the painting was gradually slipping into the lap of oblivion...
...when ragtime was still the thing, a natty Chicago tunesmith named Abe Olman wrote a dumpy, foursquare little ragtime tune called Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! Within a few months it rolled up a sale of nearly 1,500,000 copies. Then, as it must to all tunes, oblivion came to Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny...
...maintained itself as a species for more than two or three million years, and the average must be about half a million. Since Homo sapiens has already existed for some 50,000 years, he has 450,000 years to go if the average applies - "then either oblivion as we reach the end of a blind alley or progressive development into some type of descendant better adjusted than we to the total environmental factors of the time...