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...here, you know. Why, I even have one working around the house." And without fail, every one of the officials prefaced his remarks by protesting: "Not that I have any prejudice against colored people or anything like that..." Yet, in spite of what he and his associates said, Admiral Willson, superintendent of the Academy, refused to let the negro play. "We are afraid of race riots in the town," they melodramatically asserted...
...upshot of it all was that the Harvard team was offered a "choice" of three courses: either the team would voluntarily bench the colored player, or Navy would forfeit the game if Harvard insisted on his playing, or Willson would call up Harvard's officials and let them make the decision. The last alternative was taken, and a few hours later a telegram came requesting the negro not to play...
...Admiral Willson was not yet satisfied. As if the present decision were not enough, he told the manager of the Harvard team that from now on there should be a gentlemen's agreement that this college would never let a negro play against a Navy team...
Last week at the San Francisco World's Fair, the San Francisco Symphony, under Composer-Conductor Meredith Willson, played a work listed in the program as Prelude to The Great Dictator, by Charlie Chaplin. The program was not quite accurate. Actor Chaplin made up the four themes of the Prelude ("Invasion of Osterlich," "Hanah Theme," "Barber Shop Theme," "Charlie Motif"), but the music was fashioned, and orchestrated, by Composer Willson. Although Actor Chaplin always writes music for his films, this was the first to be performed in concert. Said the critics: "Obvious as most satirical attempts. . . . Interesting. ... A pleasant...
...concertina very well. Chaplin composes by humming, whistling or playing his themes on a piano while someone takes his tunes down. For The Great Dictator, his first picture in which he avowedly needed help, Composer Chaplin thought up most of the tunes, in part or in whole, let Composer Willson do the rest. One sequence, a variation on an old beer-garden waltz, begins when Actor Chaplin is hit on the head by a frying pan, which is tuned to D natural. Composer Willson thinks that Chaplin's longest (32 bars) melody, identified in the score as "Boulevardier," will...