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...title role, girlish, pixyish Metropolitan Opera Star Patrice Munsel, 27, is not very successful in re-creating Melba's tempestuous personality. But Songstress Munsel is handsomely gowned and in good voice as she sings a wide selection of numbers, from the Mad Scene in Lucia to Comin' Thro...
...most people, famed or humble. Publishers were "consummate knaves," and his own "a blockhead." He found Charles Lamb "a miserable, drink-besotted, spindle-shanked skeleton of a body, whose 'humour' as it is called, seemed to me neither more nor less than a fibre of genius shining thro' positive delirium and crackbrainedness." Robert Browning was "loudish and talkative beyond need." Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable placidity...
Chicanery in Rhode Island. Rhode Island struck him as "the most delightful spot of ground I have seen in America . . . For rural scenes and pritty, frank girls, I found it the most agreeable place I had been in thro' all my peregrinations." To Chronicler Hamilton the American character in Rhode Island seemed no more admirable than elsewhere: "I am sorry to say that the people in their dealings one with another, and even with strangers, in matters of truck or bargain, have as bad a character for chicane and disingenuity as any of our American colonys...
Percy Bysshe Shelley has been beckoning from the abode where the Eternal are. His signals, picked up by a literary Ariel who signs herself: "Shirley Carson Jenney, Clairaudient Psychic," are transcribed in The Fortune of Eternity. The book, she says, ''has been transmitted wholly thro' clairaudient dictation...
Album of Songs and Spirituals (Marian Anderson, contralto; Victor; 8 sides). A collection of light-weight items including Massenet's Elégie, Comin' Thro' the Rye and My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, sung with Contralto Anderson's characteristic sincerity and velvety voice. Recording: excellent...