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Since 1930 the director of London's illustrious Tate Gallery has been bright-eyed, snowy-haired James Bolivar Manson, a cherubic oldster whose talents as a mimic are highly prized among his friends. As director of the Tate, Mr. Manson built up its modern collection but has shown something less than a devouring interest in the minutiae of modern art. Last year the French painter. Maurice Utrillo, ten years a sober man, brought a libel suit against him and the gallery (TIME, Jan. 18. 1937) and last month won a public apology for having been listed in a Tate...
...fault of enthusiasm or lack of practice could be heard in the Lowell House Musical Society's performance of "Dido and Aeneas." Aided by a group from Radcliffe the singers entered into the occasion with a zest worthy both of Purcell's score and the lyrics of Nahum Tate, the Poet-Laureate of Restoration England, and they carried off the play with considerable colat. Particularly pleasant to the ear was Miss Nasmyth, the ardent and rejected heroine. Her singing was marked by beauty and clarity of tone, and her reserved expression strengthened the pathos of the third...
...beauties of this work are not generally known. Despite a mediocre libretto by Nahum Tate (poet-laureate of England at the time) Purcell has a real sense of dramatic pace, and his themes admirably express the varying moods of his characters...
First produced in 1689 with a libretto by Nahum Tate, poet laureate of England, the work has a preponderance of feminine parts since it was written for the author's pupils at a school for girls. These parts will be taken by members of the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...Except for one painting, unobtainable from the Tate Gallery...