Word: wolfe
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...most unfortunate error, which could be quite detrimental to wildlife, appearing in American Notes [Dec 9]. Whether your quoted figure of 50,000 wolves inhabiting Alaska is a typographical error or a case of improper research, we feel that the true number and situation of the Alaskan timber wolf (Canis lupus pambasileus) should be stated...
...Till Eulenspiegel" and Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet" would be much more fun played at midnight. It was a pitch to stonies and straights alike, and was so successful that it was followed the next year with a real gimmick--President Bok narrating an impeccably played "Peter and the Wolf"--which drew an even rowdier and more enthusiastic crowd. The next two midnight programs tried to recapture that success by continuing to take the audience back to its childhood with "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "The Young Person's Guide." But last year the program was more frivolous than...
...only four concerts a year, and is too good an orchestra to justify spending one of them either on good music which it could perform better at 8:30 or on bad music which isn't worth its time. Second, with notable exceptions like "Peter and the Wolf" there isn't much children's music which still appeals to adult concertgoers, no matter what state their heads are in by midnight. The question may even be academic, since the only piece left of this genre which comes to mind is "Tubby the Tuba"--not that it would be difficult...
Once again the wolf had come to the Lambs' door. Facing imminent foreclosure on the remaining $360,000 of a $750,000 mortgage, the Lambs, oldest theatrical society in the U.S., last week staged a fund-raising centennial celebration in its creaky, comfortable clubhouse just off Times Square. Actors Peter Ustinov and Tony Randall, Actress Monique Van Vooren and former Mayor John Lindsay joined some 300 guests who dished out up to $375 each for a 17-course Chinese dinner and a stage show...