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Four free public lectures on Alaskan exploration, baroque and rococo music, political theory, and various aspects of the world's climate, head a busy day for rostrum mounters here this afternoon and evening...
Broadcasts scheduled for next month are: "The Labor Movement in the United States, 1865-1900", Paul H. Buck, assistant professor of History, April 6; "The Noblest Monument of English Prose", John L. Lowes, Higginson Professor of English Literature, April 13; "The Great Masters of Baroque and Rococo Music", Dr. Hugo Leichtentirtt '94, April 14; "Astronomical Tests of the Theory of Relativity", Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, April 20; "The Romantic and Impressionistic Aspects of Landscape Painting in Music", Dr. Leichtentirtt, April 21; "Government Regulation of Industry", Edward S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, April...
...publicity but few customers. To Paris from Russia, three years prior, had come one Serge Stchoukine, an immensely wealthy Muscovite whose fortune came from importing the one luxury that rag-wrapped moujiks would not do without: tea. Tea Tycoon Stchoukine had bought the 18th Century Troubetzkoy Palace, filled its rococo halls with gilded French furniture and crystal chandeliers. He also had an instinctive appreciation of what the younger French artists were trying to do. In Paris he bought the Fayet collection of Gauguins outright, bought one canvas from Henri Matisse. He liked it. In 1906 he was back in Paris...
Professor Post's Fine Arts 7b shows that this can be done. The course covers modern sculpture; but the introductory lectures so far have covered the sculpture of the Late Renaissance, the baroque, the rococo, and the Nco-classic periods, not at all completely, of course, but completely enough to give a general idea to the student and to interest him in the subject. And there are few lecturers who make it more pleasant to take notes than Professor Post. David...
From the point of view of vitality, Ben Hecht's stories are only mildly, Kay Boyle's bitterly, alive. A theatrical, rococo writer, Showman Hecht spreads hokum and verbiage with a lavish hand. Most effective in this swollen vein when he writes about the greasepaint dramatics of Broadway or the alcoholic hilarities of fabulous newshawks, at his middling worst he seems a dim shadow of O. Henry or Edgar Allan Poe. Best story in the book (Snowfall in Childhood) stands out like Shirley Temple on the stage of the Grand Guignol: a simply written reminiscence of first love...