Word: publication
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago Union. The Chicago Federation of Musicians announced a series of 30 public concerts through September, beginning Labor Day in Grant Park, by a 50-man orchestra. On the list to be invited to conduct: Frederick Stock, John Philip Sousa...
...music is by Fausto Piñedo, a Yucatecan who has adapted European methods of writing to the methods of Mexico's popular troubadour ballads. Under the Minister of Public Education's auspices, Payambé will soon be presented in Mexico City, probably at the Arbeu Theatre, for the great National Theatre, designed for the presentation of opera and drama, though conceived many years ago, is still incomplete...
...Author. Says Jonathan Norton Leonard, 26: "I haven't lived long enough to have much biography." What biography he has includes the fact that his father, Jonathan Leonard, also writes (Back to Stay and The Meddlers); that Jonathan Jr. studied at schools public as well as private and underwent some tutoring before and during Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1925. He reviews books for metropolitan newspapers and The Saturday Review of Literature. In 1927 he was responsible for Ask Me Too, a juvenile version of the Ask Me Another book of educative questions-answers. Lately he returned...
...offered to sell the bust to the highest bidder for money to help the cause. Others were Tamara Loeb, Guggenheim prize winner in sculpture and W. B. Graham, dance critic. All attested to Dreyfuss's sanity and volunteered to post a bond to insure against his becoming a public charge should he be released...
Commissioned by the Obregon socialist-labor government to decorate buildings in a way peons could comprehend, he painted many frescoes devoted to a panorama of Mexican life. One of the charges against him is "desecration of public buildings" by use of "figures which, while not lacking in artistic perfection, nevertheless prove a shock to the conservative tastes of certain classes...