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...Virgil had asked Gertrude Stein to write an opera for him. Among the saints there were two saints whom she had always liked better than any others. Saint Theresa of Avila and Ignatius Loyola, and she said she would write an opera about these two saints. She began this and worked very hard at it all spring and finally finished Four Saints and gave it to Virgil to put it to music. He did. And it is a completely interesting opera both as to words and music."-Gertrude Stein in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (TIME, Sept.11...
Virgil Thomson was in Hartford, Conn., last week for the premiere of the opera he and Gertrude Stein wrote together in Paris. It is called Four Saints in Three Acts although it has some 30 saints, a prelude and four acts. It was given in the new Avery Memorial wing of the Wadsworth Athenaeum and sponsored by "The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music." This New England organization is headed by A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., a rich young Hartforder who directs the Hartford Museum and knew Virgil Thomson at Harvard when that young composer wore kid gloves to scull...
...philosophy Harvard has religious-minded William Ernest Hocking, 60, profound Alfred North Whitehead, 72, one of the three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...
...under a microscope. You can't imagine how frustrated you feel at having something you can't even see under a microscope." As a Christmas card Governor Pinchot received a large board on which was printed: "Shingle bells! Shingle bells ! Shingles all the day ! Merry Christmas!" Gertrude Stein in Paris: "Republicans are the only natural rulers in the country. When a Democrat gets in he only does so because of the singular seductiveness which he possesses. Cleveland had it and Wilson had it. Roosevelt was honestly elected, but he is not half as seductive as his predecessors...
...Yale literary renaissance" but not the War, he joined the U. S. literary colony in Paris after the Armistice, stuck it out for five years. In Paris he knew "everybody," contributed to such magazines as Broom, transition, Gargoyle, wrote a Dada novel, The Eater of Darkness. Friend of Gertrude Stein's (who described him as "the one young man who has an individual rhythm, his words made a sound to the eyes, most people's do not") he introduced Ernest Hemingway to her. Back in the U. S., he wrote for the New Yorker, until last year...