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...beard the Federation Board's meeting next week and, instrument in hand, force a vote on the ukulele's status. To plead her case she will present affidavits from famed musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch heard her play last week, said it was "like raindrops in sunshine." Com-poser-Critic Deems Taylor said that he did not see why "a good ukulele player, such as Miss Breen, shouldn't be admitted to the musicians' union. Triangle players, snare drummers and expert sand block rubbers carry union cards...
...time or other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely from teaching-from 1920 to 1925 as director at the Cleveland Institute...
...this would be a rather lugubrious picture, a poser in justifying the ways of God to man, if it were not for the joy and gladness which it must bring to all the good people of Boston and Cambridge. Tradesmen of the Square breathe a sigh of relief and replace the Kollege Kut Klothes in their window with unmatched suits and complements of a more sober hue. The period of depression is over. The college boys are back, and better to have long-running bills than no business...
...with the caution which Mr. Miller deplores. Until someone discovers a genuine criterion of truth, intelligence must become accustomed to what Mr. Miller calls the "infamous waste and cruel suffering that its miscarriage is constantly producing." Pilate's embarrassing question: What is truth?" is still as much of a poser to theorists as it ever...
Roland Young as the murderer-com-poser rides easily through the play, with delightful overtones of comedy, like plucked strings. Kay Johnson (girl-across-the-hall) and the rest of the well-matched company are capital, particularly the lovely Grethe Ruzt-Nissen in a dance pantomime to Deems Taylor's bright, soap-bubble music. In a smoothly varied performance Woodman Thompson's staccato, expressionistic sets behave better than in Roger Bloomer. (TIME, March...