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...about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white collar, has seemed a character out of Harvard's past. Like his ancestor, the Puritan governor, Arthur Endicott has ruled his domain with an iron hand little softened by words of tact. The very air of an incongruously well-appointed Lehman Hall, has been chilled and rarified by a spirit of strict New England economy...
Hellfire raged at New York's Metropolitan Opera House one afternoon last week as a preacher named Wrestling Bradford wrestled with his lustful soul and lost. From Quincy, Mass. in Puritan times Librettist Richard Leroy Stokes and Composer Howard Hanson had borrowed him for the chief character in their opera, Merry Mount...
...giddy Cavaliers. They were bent on building a Maypole, dancing on the Holy Sabbath, an offense not half so shocking to Wrestling Bradford as the fact that Marigold intended to marry Sir Gower Lackland (Tenor Edward Johnson). The wedding was half over when Wrestling strode grimly in, leading his Puritan fanatics. Sir Gower was killed, Marigold arrested. Wrestling fell asleep in the forest to dream of the fiery netherworld, of dancers with slippery hips, of Marigold for whom he signs the devil's book, has the devil's mark seered into his forehead...
Merry Mount started off with a promising overture, stanch and hymnal. After that the orchestra seemed capable of only the most commonplace description. The Hell scene was noisy but unexciting. Bradford's passion for Marigold was expressed by a theme startlingly like "Limehouse Blues." The Puritan chorus had the richest music but it sang so often, intoned so many ''Amens" that at times the opera seemed more like a cantata, more suitable for a concert performance such as it received last spring in Ann Arbor (TIME...
...Where did a Puritan pastor dream of dancers and hell fire...