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...holding back are now conducting two of Mexico's seven symphony orchestras. His conservatory is full of students able for the first time to get complete training without leaving Mexico (although his critics impatiently say that "it hasn't yet produced one first-rate anything"). This fall the Institute will stage three commissioned one-act operas on Mexican themes. The drama department is drawing crowds. Chávez had cannily priced the tickets just under the cheapest movie in town...
...sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten, she met Raymond Duncan, who sent her to study dancing with his sister Isadora. At 16, Elsa organized a London theater company, which put on one-act plays by Chekhov and Pirandello...
Hope's the Thing (by Richard Harrity; produced by Eddie Dowling) was a rather rare event: an evening of playlets on Broadway by a man who had never had a play there. When the Experimental Theatre recently staged one-act plays by an assortment of playwrights, Harrity's Hope Is the Thing with Feathers* so ran away with the reviews that Producer Dowling offered Harrity a one-man show...
...also wants to do "something worth while." So far, he has composed music for a one-act ballet, a rhapsody for violin and orchestra. Adds André: "There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure...
...one-act plays-one of which makes its American debut on the Agassiz House stage-share twin billing in the spring program lined up by Radcliffe's Idler Players. Patricia Troxell '49, president of the Annex experimental theater group, announced this week that Tennessee Williams' "Lord Byron's Love Letter" and Christopher Fay's "Phoenix Too Frequent" will be produced at the Annex next month...