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James F. Foster '17, 77 Swan Street, Buffalo, New York...
Delicate Story (by Ferenc Molnar. produced by Gilbert Miller & Vinton Freedley). The famous Hungarian playwright-refugee Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Swan, The Guardsman) apparently has not been too depressed by a world at war. Nowadays he spends much of his time in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel bar, and he has not lost his Continental knack of getting amusement out of the idea of cuckoldry. He is amused by it in Delicate Story. which is so delicate that it almost - but not quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about...
...diffuse Second, and how much more purified, without loss of strength, are the themes of the sixth compared to those of the earlier symphony. Saturday night, again, Toscanini is doing (in addition to the Second Symphony) two of Sibelius's better known tone-poems, Pohjola's Daughter and The Swan of Tuonela. This is a chance to hear two shorter masterpieces, each impressive, but in entirely different ways: The Swan being a quiet, meditative mood-piece with little excitement, and Pohjola's Daughter being a volcanic orchestration of an old Scandinavian myth...
...pacify the baby), the Old Farmer has better than 100,000 subscribers (mostly New Englanders), from Bangor, Me. to Hong Kong. These ardent readers feared that the Old Farmer's 1940 issue would be its last. After the death of its fourth copyright owner, Bostonian Carroll J. Swan, in 1935, Little, Brown & Co. agreed to publish the almanac for five years. Its contract ended with the 148th edition. But this week the 149th was scheduled to come out bright & shiny as ever, kitchen-nail hole and all. Its new publisher: shrewd, shaggy Robb Sagendorph, Boston social registerite and Harvardman...
...begun a 22-week tour of the U. S. The Massine ballet lacked pretty young stars and its ensemble would not make the Rockettes jealous, but it had two of the world's best ballerinas: dark, svelte British Alicia Markova, who excels in classic ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake, and dark, vivacious Alexandra Danilova, who was in the old Diaghilev company, Danilova -once married to Massine's rival choreographer Georges Balanchine-dances with a gaiety and precision which belie the fact that, in her late 30s she is old for a ballerina...