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...Samuel Insull one June day in 1932, "to be newspaper copy." That was the morning when with his fabulous utility empire collapsing around him, Sam Insull was taking leave of the last of the 150-odd companies over which he had long been lord and master. As a news-prophet, Mr. Insull was far from right. His fantastic flight through Europe, his year's fugitive exile in Greece, his enforced return to the U. S., his sensational criminal trials in Chicago made many a front-page piece of newspaper copy for many a day. But on that morning...
...Director Heinrich Conried. The grounds for this protest were moral. Its cause was a new opera which had just been given its Metropolitan premiere. In the opera a necrophilic heroine disrobed before her gloating, drunken stepfather, demanding as the price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less violent love. The plot was Oscar Wilde's, but the opera's composer had italicized its gruesomeness with uncanny naturalism. For sheer horror nothing like it had ever been witnessed on the austere...
...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *"Poet and Peasant," Overture Suppe *Country Gardens Grainger *Fantasia, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Marche Slave Tchaikovsky *Fantasy, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Churchill-Bodge *"Espana" Waltzes Waldteufel March, "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...Prophet of Doom. Sitting in his huge office in the United Mine Workers' new, half -million -dollar headquarters, John Lewis thinks expansive thoughts and formulates them into the resounding sentences so suited to the undulating rumble of his voice: "The fabric of culture which has been built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad...
...book,* he predicted the invention of vast music-creating engines, envisioned a musical art in which present-day musical instruments and "interpretive" musicians would no longer be necessary. What this music of the future would sound like, and why anyone should want to create it or listen to it, Prophet Chavez left to his readers' imagination...