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...Manhattan audience, looking unseasonably plushy, last week cooed and clapped its way through the revival of a cockeyed opera-Four Saints in Three Acts. The author of its words, expatriate Gertrude Stein, is still expatriate in Occupied France. The author of its music, Expatriate Virgil Thomson, now repatriated in Manhattan, supervised the second showing...
Future Coffee Concerts include: an oratorio version of the chichi-melodious Gertrude Stein-Virgil Thomson opera, Four Saints in Three Acts; Spanish music (with the bagpipers); voodoo dancers and Brazilian Soprano Elsie Houston; a "Jubilee" of gospel-singing Negro quartets (some with three or five members) and the guitar-playing bishop. The bishop, the Rev. Utah Smith, wears paper wings, lately inspired Composer-Critic Thomson to write: "As a stimulator of choric transports he incites the faithful to movements and behavior not very different from those of any true jitterbug. Myself, I found it distinctly pleasant to hear good swing...
Charles A. Thomson, Chief of the Division of Cultural Relations of the State Department, and Pedro Henriquez Urena, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, urged greatly increased American understanding of the cultures and interests of the South American nations at the first meeting of the Pan American Society of Massachusetts in Fogg Art Museum last night...
...Thomson, after stressing that out lot is of necessity joined indissolubly with that of South America, asked for increased activity on the part of committees like the Massachusetts group and referred to the progress already made by the State Department in arranging for the exchange of students between the American nations...
...After Thomson had concluded that the problems confronting the Americas are not insuperable, Professor Henriquez Urena spoke on the necessity for increased understanding of the Latin American republics...