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AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE - Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie- Stokes ($2). A thriller about life on a new planet; for those who are ashamed to be caught reading a detective story.
When the wealthy Juilliard Musical Foundation gave the Metropolitan Opera Company $50,000 last year John Erskine, president of Juilliard's Music School, made public a list of strings to the gift. One was that the Metropolitan should pay more attention to native talent (TIME, March 13, 1933). President...
CAN WE LIMIT WAR? - Hoffman Nickerson-Stokes ($2.75). A reactionary adds his dogmatic voice to the quarrel about peace.
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...
Most of the New York critics wrote sidestepping reviews. They were dealing with home talent. Librettist Stokes, who used to be critic of the Evening World, was a friend. The polite applause was described in the New York Times as "the most enthusiastic reception given any native music drama that...