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...Manhattan audience, looking unseasonably plushy, last week cooed and clapped its way through the revival of a cockeyed opera-Four Saints in Three Acts. The author of its words, expatriate Gertrude Stein, is still expatriate in Occupied France. The author of its music, Expatriate Virgil Thomson, now repatriated in Manhattan, supervised the second showing...
Future Coffee Concerts include: an oratorio version of the chichi-melodious Gertrude Stein-Virgil Thomson opera, Four Saints in Three Acts; Spanish music (with the bagpipers); voodoo dancers and Brazilian Soprano Elsie Houston; a "Jubilee" of gospel-singing Negro quartets (some with three or five members) and the guitar-playing bishop. The bishop, the Rev. Utah Smith, wears paper wings, lately inspired Composer-Critic Thomson to write: "As a stimulator of choric transports he incites the faithful to movements and behavior not very different from those of any true jitterbug. Myself, I found it distinctly pleasant to hear good swing...
Ready to give a glad hand and a foaming stein of beer to all Freshmen and Sophomores who can find their way to 14 Plympton Street, the Editors of the CRIMSON will be on hand tomorrow night to welcome all aspirants to the various boards, News, Business, Editorial, or Photographic...
...course of her lifetime she has several dogs, marries several men (mostly Army officers), lives in several of the 48 States. She seems at times to be some sort of dim, potent symbol or half-goddess, sometimes a plain case of schizophrenia, sometimes a stooge for Miss Stein. In the long run, after several icily beautiful pages of suspense, she appears to settle down with a man named Andrew...
...Gertrude Stein says of Ida: "Ida decided that she was just going to talk to herself. Anybody could stand around and listen but as for her she was just going to-talk to herself...