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INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). U. S. letters in any department are no longer colonial to Britishers, with the possible exceptions of detective stories and letters-to-the-Times. But while a glaring U. S. dawn silhouets many a crude indigenous growth, England's politely setting sun bathes her literary garden in a relatively classic glow. English readers dislike and distrust such experimenters as James Joyce and David Herbert Lawrence. And many a U. S. reader, Tory if no longer colonial, shares the British dread of untrimmed edges, prefers the clipped formality of more traditional writers...
...writers have been so infallible as Rosamond Lehmann. Dusty Answer (1927) might have been a lucky strike; A Note in Music showed it was not. In Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters, both pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian...
...follows in full: March, "Queen of Sheba", Gounod; "Dence Macabre, Symphonic Poem", Saint-Saens; Suite from "Carmen", Bizet; "Facade", Walton; Piano Concerto No. 1, in F sharp minor, First Movement, Rachmaninoff; "California", Tone Poem, Converse; Overture to "Oberon", Weber; Masquerade, "An American Rhapsody", McKinley; "By the Beautiful Blue Danube", Waltz, Strauss; Ride of the Valkyries", Wagner...
...program for the Pops concert at 8.30 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall will be as follows: "Greetings to Bangor" March, R. B. Hall; "Poet and Peasant" Overture, Suppe; "Liebestraum", Listz-Herbert; "II-Trovatore" Fantasia, Verdi; "Finlandia", Sibelius; "Blue Danube" Waltz, Strauss; Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Liszt; "Mile. Modiste" Selection, Herbert; "Invitation to the Dance", Weber-Berlioz; "Stars and Stripes Forever", Sousa...
...program for the Pops Concert at 8.30 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall will be as follows: Coronation March, Meyerbeer; "Mignon" overture, Thomas; "Kammenoi Ostrow", Rubenstein; "Carmen" fantasia, Bizet; Finale, violin concerto, Mendelssohn; "Kol Nidrei", Bruch, (Cello solo, J. Langendoen); "Marche Slave", Tschaikowsky; "The Skaters" waltz, Waldteufel; Volga Boatmen's Song; "Strike up the Band", Gershwin...