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...Boul' ("short for boulevard") the good-hearted and light-fingered cabman: "We sinners make the best saints." From the depths of sewer and street in the first act, its hero and heroine rise to Heaven in the second and third, their paradise the dingy seventh floor room of a tenement...
George Gershwin, 27, was born in Brooklyn. At an early age, he contributed to the music of a rickety, rollicking, tenement street, at first with infantile muling, later with a stout, pubescent chirrup. He skinned his knees in the gutters of this street; he nourished himself smearily with its bananas; he broke its dirty windows and eluded its brass-and-blue clothed curator. When he was 13, his mother purchased a piano...
...three sets on display consist of a backyard scene in a 'tenement district of Greenwich Village, a view of Union Square as Don Passos sees it, and a tableau curtain very similar to that used in the "Chauve Souris." Color and lighting run, riot in these sets and obtain a startling effect of ordered disorder. In addition to the sets, there is on display a mask designed by I. M. Simon '27, a member of the club...
Stella inevitably revenged her kind by plunging Savaron down the abyss of sex. Writing his autobiography afforded him a ledge to cling to tem- porarily. Then that crumbled and he dreamed dizzily of himself as im- prisoned by the Winkelbergs, craning out of a lopsided tenement win- dow in a nightcap, blowing kisses into infinity. He left Stella, strug- gled a while to brake his racing thoughts, then blew his tired brains...
...HARP IN THE WINDS?Daniel Henderson?Appleton ($1.25). This is the book of a U. S. poet who finds his country pleasant, the world not wholly bad. Delicately, temperately, he writes of "Springtime along the Pennsylvania Railroad," "Tenement Children," "Keats," "Friendship," "The Lackawanna Ferry." A flowery hedge, a regiment of roses, the filagrees of a frozen brook?these lift his heart; and his eye is quick to value those exquisite banalities of everyday life that the gross cannot see, and the great have not time to write about. When he sings of the "Pony Express," "The First Steamboat...