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WRITTEN in the leisurely tempo of the epoch which is its setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...
Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela by Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $2)?A glowing account of a hero's approach to the Finnish hell...
Wishful of drawing no conclusions himself. Fort constantly trembles on the verge of dark sayings. When he cannot contain himself, instead of putting the suggestion in his own mouth he says: "The expression is. . . ." The expression is, then, that a hitherto unnoticed swan was discovered in Manhattan's Central Park near the place and time Dorothy Arnold (famed lost girl) disappeared; that the stars, in stead of being inconceivably far away and wandering individually are probably within rocket-shot and set in a revolving shell (Ptolemaic astronomy;. Says Fort: ''Of course the stars are near...
...Imperial Opera. Her U. S. debut was at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. The performance began at 11:00 p. m. The audience kept her dancing and bowing for two hours. Later with her own company she produced many elaborate ballets but most memorable was her simple Swan Dance at the end of which, bravely dying, she crumpled into a pitiful, feathery heap...
...Grant defeated W. D. Swan, Jr., 15-12, 18-16, 18-15; W. S. summers defeated W. N. Tuttle, 15-13, 12-15, 18-16; L. A. Brack, Jr., defeated F. W. Davis, 15-18, 15-9, 15-12, 11-15, 15-6; D. W. Sargent defeated R. Davis, 18-15, 15-9, 15-6; R. C. Vose, Jr., defeated Dowling...