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Schubert: Sonata In C Minor (Webster Aitken, piano; Elaine Music Shop, 2 sides LP). Since 68-year-old Artur Schnabel retired from touring, concert audiences seldom get to hear any of the three splendid "Grand Sonatas" Schubert composed in the last year of his life (1828); most other pianists consider them too long and repetitious. This one, the first, does not have so much spontaneous melody as the other two, but Schubert lovers will not want to miss it in Aitken's strong, clean performance. Recording: excellent...
Above left: Butler does a practice back flip with Briggs assisting. Frederick A. Webster '35 is holding ropes which will support Butler if he lands wrong. Webster has made his outdoor gym and equipment available to the cheerleaders for several afternoons each week this year...
...played the lead role of Masha and directed the play. Her acting was first class, and it is to her credit as a director that the suffering did not get out of control, as it might so easily have done. Behind her as the other two sisters are Margaret Webster and Sylvia Farnham, both of whom despair well. At a more or less uniform level of excellence are Paul Ballantyne, George Hill, David Lewis, Peter Temple, Eugene Stuckmann, and Darthy Hinkley, most of whose Russian names would be enough to throw me into a despair...
...Americans Jerome Hines (the Grand Inquisitor) and Robert Merrill-through stage movements blocked out long before. She had cut down most of the operatic arm-flailing ("the less acting you do the better"), tried to keep them from staring dead ahead at Conductor Stiedry for the beat. Exhausted Margaret Webster hoped she had succeeded in her effort to "prevent the eye from too grossly contradicting...
...Producer Milgrim wanted to do was to persuade Manley Halliday, the famous novelist of the '20s whom he had picked off the skids and put on his payroll, to fly East for a week. The idea, said Milgrim, was for Halliday to go sit under an elm at Webster College, the location for the musical he was assigned to script, and let some of the old collegiate sap rise...