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Seventy-year-old Walter Damrosch, whom a New York Times editorial called "Ariel" fortnight ago when he began again to waft and explain safe & sane music over the air to 6,000,000 children, fumed: "To force these [Stokowski's] experiments on helpless children is criminal. Should cubism have been used to preach the glories of painting to our young people...
...noon. 2:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m. and 8:00 p. m. Greenwich Mean Time on Aug. 9-10, Sept. 13-14, Oct. 11-12, and so on around the calendar of the Polar Year's afternoon twilight, night and morning, each station will waft into the air a big rubber balloon. Hanging from many a balloon will be a small wireless transmitter whose whine will indicate which way the wind blows, to men listening at wireless direction-finders...
...ingathering is almost complete this wek. A million Roman Catholics, purified in soul by weeks and months of frequent communion, are setting their mundane affairs in order. Three weeks hence, June 20-24, they will be assembled in Chicago and looped with the bonds of Catholic ceremony. Then will waft about the world, to the Pope willingly immured in Rome, a mighty odor of sanctity. It will be the greatest public demonstration of. faith ever witnessed by any religion. It will be the greatest concourse of the devout ever gathered in one community...
...keep that intricate bit of landscape at its pinnacle of horticultural impeccability right up to the great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
...effect of this glorification is unpredictable. Few princesses' heads have been turned in seeing themselves mimicked by plumply imposing contraltos. Peasant women seem noticeably unaffected by the rythmic nothings which curiously garbed damse's waft across the footlights. But in the case of the dine and-dance, belle, the consequences are most grave. If the stage prototype of their kind becomes immediately and universally popular, who can persuade the girls not to trill and warble? They all act already, but a working-girl opera, such as Mr. Kahn proposes to inflict upon the docile audience, will ruin the hearts...