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Drawing its talent from more than seven Harvard and Radcliffe organizations, the opera is expected by its sponsors to surpass the production of last year. General manager of the performance is Lawrence F. Ebb '39, while Courtland Canby 2G will conduct the music and Alan S. Downer 5G will direct the acting. Miss Katherine Schroeder with the assistance of Miss Helon Mayor, Radcliffe '38 will put the dancers through their paces...
...prose and mood, no reminiscences published in 1939 are likely to surpass the idyllic felicity of Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century and Seven More Years (Viking, $2.75), a nostalgic account of his first 21 years. Those who read his latest poems, Vigils (1936), will be prepared for this serene counterpart in prose. To most other readers Siegfried Sassoon is still associated with 1) his realistic war trilogy (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, etc.) and his bitter war poems (CounterAttack, etc.); 2) his spectacularly murderous heroism in the trenches (in order, he once told Robert Graves, "to keep...
...large table where there is too great a variety of liquors, too many cigarettes smouldering in ashtrays, and too much gaiety. It is a desperate gaiety; this party has to be better, livelier, than last night's because this is a bigger night; and last night's had to surpass the one before, and so on. Somehow, everything is wrong. Somehow, the excellent orchestra is too loud, too fast. Somehow, the floor is too crowded, the decorations too garishly bizarre...
...best proof of Bauhaus importance lay in the field to which all its experiments were, in theory, preliminaries: architecture and industrial design. Examples: tubular and wood furniture, frosted glass and metal lamps, pottery and other useful goods made in the '20s, which no U. S. manufacturers yet surpass; advanced photography done by or under the direction of Bauhaus Instructor Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy; the second Bauhaus building at Dessau by Founder-Director Walter Gropius, called by the Museum's Director Alfred Barr Jr. "architecturally the most important structure of its decade...
Frida Rivera's esteem for her house guest, Exile Leon Trotsky, antedates but probably does not surpass André Breton's. From Mexico last summer Poet Breton and Painter Diego Rivera issued a furious manifesto, calling on all independent revolutionary intellectuals, "whose voice is drowned by the odious tumult of the regimented falsifiers," to form a world-wide union against the oppression of art by any political regime, especially the Stalinist...