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...creatures," declared Mark Twain, "there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate...
...Mark Twain would have liked A Stretch on the River, but not Mark's genteel wife Livy. The fact is that Deck Hand Bill Joyce thought and talked mostly about women and so did Joe, the second mate...
...Stretch on the River is a slight and rambling saga and its humor runs largely to wisecracks, but it has a fine, easy familiarity with river life and describes its spell with casual, vernacular effectiveness. Though the book is no Huckleberry Finn, it has some of Mark Twain's own feeling for the rugged, easygoing river hands on the Mississippi...
...even went so far as to say: "I want to be considered an American composer ... one of the boys." At 27, blue-eyed Wunderkind Foss takes a little easier view of the matter. "Now," says he, "I set a Sandburg poem to music or a story by Mark Twain without thinking of being an American...
...Sandburg poem, Prairie, was the inspiration for a cantata by Foss which won him a citation from the New York Music Critics Circle in 1944. The Mark Twain story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, became the basis for a one-act opera which was produced last week by Manhattan's new After Dinner Opera Co. It was just about the livest and jumpin'est opera yet turned out by a young composer...