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Invited by the Pennsville, NJ. Veterans of Foreign Wars to make a Memorial Day speech, Major General Harry H. Vaughan regretfully refused. Explained the President's senior military aide: "Unfortunately, my experience with the gentlemen of the press over the last several years has forced me to retire from the field of speechmaking. It is not really part of my duty. Every time I try to help somebody out, I seem to get into trouble ... So I think it is better to just refrain from making speeches...
After three churchly hours in Covent Garden last week, most of the audience agreed that summarize it did-even if it added little that was new. In Progress they heard the best and worst of Vaughan Williams, from reedy English pastoral melodies to great splatterings of brass. They gave the composer an ovation, but they also had to agree with one elderly dowager that Progress was "rather monotonous for opera, wasn...
...Vaughan Williams himself calls Progress "a morality." He had picked out nine episodes from Bunyan's book, but none of them conveyed much drama or continuity of struggle. The staging was uninspired, and the Pilgrim (sung by Tenor Arnold Matters) wandered from the City of Destruction to Mount Sion like an unruffled country vicar...
London critics were respectful, but deprecatory. The Manchester Guardian complained that Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim "seems in some way outside the music." Most thought that Composer Williams had simply tackled a book, that was too symbolic and subjective for operatic treatment...
...Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those on sale by this week: Red Foley (Decca), Herb Jeffries (Coral), Vaughan Monroe (Victor), Bing Crosby (Decca...