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...funny," the late Gertrude Stein wrote, "you have to take everything in the kitchen and put it on the floor." Just about everything from the U.S.'s historical kitchen was on the stage last week at Columbia University; whatever was missing (such as a pinch of salt) could easily be added by the listener. The occasion was the first performance of Gertrude Stein's last finished work, a pleasant and unpretentious little opera, The Mother...
...score was by an old hand at setting Stein to song, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, who wrote the music for Gertrude's Four Saints in Three Acts. Since the business on stage (involving among others Ulysses S. Grant, Thaddeus Stevens, Daniel Webster and an angel) was pretty complicated, Thomson kept his music harmonically simple, rarely dissonant and sometimes hymnlike, and his adroit handling of the voices added some new inflections to Steinese...
Interrupted only by the vociferous accompaniment of two sparrows with apparently well-defined views on Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts," the Glee Club gave the second of its two traditional May Yard concerts to a gathering of over 2000 persons from the steps of Widener Library last night...
Nothing Can Equal Me. The idols of the expatriates-James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Valery, Andre Gide-were for the most part hardworking, serious writers who lived at a safe distance from their rambunctious disciples. When Sinclair Lewis - arch-progenitor, to the average expatriate, of "the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing"-visited Montparnasse and sat himself down at a conspicuous table in one of the cafés, every expatriate eye turned icily away. "Little" magazines such as transition, Broom, Secession, and Gargoyle occupied a position of huge magnitude in the expatriate eye. Putnam tells the dismal...
...Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller expounding in four-letter words his philosophy of life-the essence of which, Author Putnam says, "was to the effect that prostitutes are about the only pure beings to be found in a world of reeking garbage." There was also frustrated Author Leo Stein, whose loathing of his prolific sister, Gertrude, was a feature of the boulevards. "My God, Sam!" Leo would groan to Author Putnam, "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were in school, I used to have to do all her homework...