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THE BEACHCOMBER?William McFee? Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Monolog by long-winded Chief Engineer Spenlove on the undistinguished career of Sidney Nevile, his professional and emotional difficulties.
Author Sinclair Lewis, more than a little uncomfortable in the role of ranking U. S. satirist, last week flippantly introduced his Selected Short Stories, classified himself as an incurable romantic. Explaining that most of his stories had been hastily dished up, warmed over from some previous mood, Author Lewis apologized...
At the performance audience and players rose as one man to honor the world's greatest conductor. But Toscanini rapped quickly for attention and proceeded to make something vital and thrilling out of Bruckner's long-winded Seventh Symphony. When the performance was ended the audience stayed to...
The raggedy pig-tailed Gretel was Soprano Queena Mario who in California once sang Micaela to Farrar's Carmen. Farrar recalled how at that performance she had gone to the young singer's dressing-room and fairly dragged her out to bow before the curtain. Instead of a...
Boasting, whether vain or not, comes easily to Autobiographer Powys: "I know I am not being silly or conceited when I say that in certain directions I have as powerful an imagination as Swift." He thinks he is "too much of a demented satyr and too much of a fanatical...