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VOLUME XXXIX NUMBER 4 The BOSTON

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"Merely to bathe in such an ocean of glorious musical sound is in itself an experience that no music lover is likely to forget."—N. Y. Sun.

— FIVE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS —

Friday Evening, November 16

Friday Evening, January 4

Thursday Evening, January 31 SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY Friday Evening, March 1 Conductor

Friday Evening, April 5 "The Boston Symphony Orchestra, under Dr. Serge Kousse- vitzky, is the finest orchestra I have ever heard in all my life." 8:15 o'clock —M. Isidor Philipp, Leading Teacher of Piano in France.

Never have the Conductor's commanding or persuasive powers, his ranging sympathy with various styles of music, both new and old, been so manifest as in the Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts of. the present moment. The personnel which does his bidding is an assemblage of musicianship such as no period of the past can show. And the Boston Sym¬ phony concerts at present take a significant and vital place in present-day musical life.

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BERNARD R. HUBBARD "THE LATE "Alaska—The New Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" Recorded in Amazing Motion Pictures with the Famous CHRISTOPHER Scientist-Adventurer Himself Telling the Story

BEAN" A Lively Comedy in Three Acts

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Presented by THE INSTITUTE PLAYERS Under the Direction of Bennett Kilpack

"... a funny comedy ". . . moved briskly and with a hilarious conclu¬ with humor to the end." Father Hubbard with one of his huskies sion." —N. Y. Times. —N. Y. Herald Tribune. Thursday Evening, November 15 8:15 o'clock "Entertainment of a "A deft and happy and broad, unassuming sort Music Hall Academy of Music eminently likeable play, is the goal for which it WEEKLY TICKET admits one with a pungency under frankly aims and the Reserved Seat to Members, 50 cents; Guest Ticket, 50 cents the surface and surprise end which it success¬ around the edges." fully achieves." —N. Y. World-Telegram. —N. Y. Evening Post. "I have seldom heard ". . . an extraordinary such cheering outside gathering of the past THE BROOKLYN Twickenham or Wemb¬ and a creation, phrase ley as greeted this bril¬ by phrase, of shining liant comedy and this integrity. There is every SAVINGS BANK exhibition of overwhelm¬ indication of a long ingly brilliant acting." run." —Evening News, London. —London Times. CHARTERED 1827

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Brooklyn Museum Openings

RECUMBENT LION—LIMESTONE EGYPTIAN "BOAT OF THE SUN" (Largest sculptor's model known—note that it is executed (Wood and plaster model of typical Nile boat found in tomb) from two blocks.) Wilbour Fund, 1934 Charles Edwin Wilbour Collection

On October 15 the Brooklyn Museum opened an the collection owned by the Brooklyn Museum. exhibition of architecture and related arts planned On November 19 the Museum will open its newly or completed during the present administration by the organized Classical Hall. In order to give a clearer various city departments and civic organizations. It is idea of Greek and Roman daily life, the collections intended to give the public a comprehensive picture of have been classified according to the functions for contemporary New York municipal architecture and which they were designed rather than to show their associated arts, such as city planning, housing, land¬ part in a general artistic evolution. scape architecture, architectural sculpture and murals. Accordingly, cases illustrative of child life, house¬ Sections of the exhibition are devoted to the New hold activities, ceremonial customs, warfare and ath¬ York Park Department, Long Island State Park Com¬ letics, to mention only a few, have been arranged by mission, Public Schools, Borough of Queens, Tri- grouping together miscellaneous objects under these Borough Bridge Authority, Port of New York Author¬ institutions. In addition, fifteen photo-murals of an¬ ity, Department of Public Welfare, College Art Asso¬ cient buildings, as well as casts, maps and industrial ciation murals, the Regional Plan, the Housing charts, supplement the view of ancient life which has Authority, the Borough of Richmond Free Port, the been begun on the basis of material already available Brooklyn Museum and Botanic Garden and the New in the Museum's collections. Such organization should York Municipal Art Commission. The galleries of be of especial value to the many classes in ancient the west wing on the fifth floor have been redecorated history which visit the hall, as well as to the general for the occasion. public. One of the outstanding Museum events of the near The opening of the Hall of Mediaeval Art, under future will be the opening in November of the Wilbour process of installation by Curator Marvin C. Ross, Memorial Library Room on the third floor, which has been scheduled for December. January, accord¬ is to house ing to present the Museum's plans, will see books on the opening of Egyptology. It the recon- is adjacent to structed main the Egyptian entrance, Hall Gallery and of Primitive directly above and Prehis¬ the main li¬ toric Art, as brary, of which well as the it is an exten¬ Exhibition of sion and with Fine Prints of which it com¬ the Year and municates by the Biennial a passenger International elevator. To Water Color Mr.WiLBOUR's Exhibi t i o n. private libra¬ Now open are ry have been temporary ex¬ added the hibits, halls of various books sculpture, dec¬ o n Egyptian orative arts, and other and natural classic art in Greek, Roman and Other Objects from the Collection of Mrs. John Morrin history. Page Fifty-four THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF 'ARTS AND SCIENCES

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C O N T E N T S Page Page Frontispiece, "Bird in Space," by Constantin Current Books (Professor William Lyon Brancusi 56 Phelps) 60 Professor Griggs 57 "Adventures in Science" (Ellis L. Manning) 60 Gertrude Stein 57 Current History (Dr. Albert E. Hindmarsh) 61 On Music ("The Enjoyment of Music")... 57 Bruce Bairnsfather 61 Beethoven's Symphonies (Dr. Daniel Greg¬ Events from November 7 to November ory Mason) 58 21 62, 63, 64 S. Miles Bouton 58 The Senior Member 64 Poetry Reading (Dario Shindell, Jean W. A Field Trip (Mrs. R. Edson Doolittle) .... 65 Wadley and Milo Miloradovich) 59 An Alcott Classic (The Clare Tree Major Chemistry Today (Professor Harold C. Company) 64, 66 Urey) 59 American Art (Mrs. Helen Appleton Read) . 66 Industrial Russia (Allan Monkhouse) 59 Programs 68

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Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art "BIRD IN SPACE" (Bronze) By CoNSTANTIN BrANCUSI The work of Constantin Brancusi, Rumanian sculptor and at one time pupil of Rodin, has caused a storm of controversy both here and abroad. "Bird in Space" was among several pieces denied duty-free admission to the United States in 1926 on the ground that it was not a work of art and teas therefore taxable as a piece of bronze. The customs court decision on this point in favor of Mr. Brancusi was considered a great victory by champions of modern art. The American sculptor, William Zorach, says of this work that the artist has "taken the line of movement of a bird about to soar into space. At ei'ery angle the line retains its purity, its ethereal quality. . . . The highly polished surface gives the effect of upward soaring." The layman may make his own decision about the artistic qualities of this bird, for it is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and may be seen there after November 20. Page Fifty-six The BULLETIN of the

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Brooklyn, New York City, October 20, 1934 VOLUME XXXIX NUMBER 4

PROFESSOR GRIGGS ON MUSIC Ardent admirers of "Many love music but for music's sake, Professor Edward Many because her touches can awake Howard Griggs credit Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, him with affecting for And rise to follow where she loves to lead. inner good the lives What various feelings come from days gone by! of more individuals What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! than any other living Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play man. Certainly the an¬ And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, nouncement of a course Mind how at every touch, at every tone, of lectures by this A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone." scholar summons an audience of thinking So wrote Walter Savage Landor, the great artist men and women in any in living who "strove with none; for none was worth city of these United my strife." His words are a beautiful expression of States, and recalling the ability of music, more than any of the other arts, the high quality of his to evoke poignant memories and long forgotten lectures and their moods. The last lines remind us, too, that music once played can never be recaptured; it must be heard at marked inspirational power, it is not over emphasizing the moment of its playing or be forever lost; no his influence to trace to it, among literally thousands human artist can exactly duplicate his rendering of a of Americans, kinship with the real values of life. song or of instrumental compositions. And wonderful There are many in his Institute following who will as the electrical recording disc is, there is inevitably testify to a greater will to live through his lectures. missing from its repetition some indescribable but Attempts have often been made to index the source essential quality which was present in the original of this power over an audience. Standing in the rear performance. The lover of music must take the oppor¬ of the Music Hall while Professor Griggs is address¬ tunity to hear it whenever he can, for he will never ing his great audience, one is immediately aware of have the chance to hear quite the same music again. the pervasive influence of the speaker. His personal¬ The attractive "Enjoyment of Music" course conducted ity is distinct, arresting, a union of human elements quite unlike that of any other public teacher. The by Mr. Olin Downes will open Tuesday evening, October 23, with Richard Crooks, famous tenor, as qualities of that personality have been well described assisting artist. The subject of the evening will be as cultural inheritance, "a trained, disciplined and "The Aria and the Song," illustrated with arias by enriched mind, an artist's imagination, the heart of a Handel and Donizetti, and songs by Schubert, friend, the passion of a reformer." Richard Strauss and modern composers.

GERTRUDE STEIN 2,000 HOURS TO SPEND Gertrude Stein, the poet and novelist whose ob¬ The average man or woman often complains that scure paragraphs have baffled most of her readers, is his obligations leave no time for the pursuit of hap¬ on the high seas. She is returning to the United States piness as he envisions it. The demands of his work, on her first visit after thirty years' residence in of his family, and sundry interests are perpetual. Europe; with her comes her secretary, Alice B. He talks wistfully of the splendid things he would do Toklas, whose name she used for the title of the auto¬ if he "only had the time." It is therefore startling biography which created such a sensation last autumn. to be informed by no less an authority than Profes¬ Miss Stein was born sixty years ago at Allegheny, sor Walter B. Pitkin that the average person pos¬ Pa., across the river from the smoking chimneys of sesses two thousand hours every year which belong Pittsburgh. Revolted by the drab ugliness of nine¬ absolutely to him to do with as he wishes. A sur¬ teenth-century American industry, she achieved a rep¬ prising amount of this large leisure is tossed away utation as a poet while still in her twenties; her in elusive hours of indecision. What many fail to original style was the subject of bitter controversy realize is that surplus hours as well as working hours before she joined the colony of expatriate writers and need regimentation. Institute membership offers one artists in Paris. From abroad she exerted considerable ideal framework around which to weave these casual (Continued on page 67) hours and invest them with a precious value. Page Fifty-seven THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONIES S. MILES BOUTON The second of five Mr. S. Miles Bouton, lecture-recitals on who will discuss Hitler "The Spiritual Sig¬ and his policies at the nificance of Beetho¬ Forum meeting Tuesday ven's Symphonies" evening, October 30, is will be given on Sun¬ undoubtedly one of the day afternoon, Octo¬ best informed authorities ber 28, by Dr. Daniel on German affairs in this Gregory Mason. In country today. As cor¬ this lecture he will respondent for the Asso¬ discuss the "Eroica" ciated Press and various Symphony, that newspapers, he spent a matchless expression total of twenty-three years of the youthful sense in Europe — chiefly in of power in which Beethoven triumphantly asserts Germany, although his that man can and will achieve his heart's desire. None assignments covered other countries as well. Mr. of the uncertainty of our troubled times is to be Bouton was recently required to leave Germany be¬ found in this composition, which soars upward with cause the Hitler government insisted that he was tell¬ magnificent confidence and the strength of absolute ing too many devastating truths about events in the mastery. Dr. Mason brings to his interpretation of Nazis' Third Reich. this great work the insight of a born musician as well Having gone to Berlin in 1911, Mr. Bouton had as the illuminating analytical ability of a distin¬ an opportunity to study the German Empire at peace guished critic. He is a composer of note, and his for three years. He was present in Vienna and then books on Beethoven, Brahms and other composers in Berlin when the calamitous declarations of war have contributed in no small measure to the apprecia¬ were made from both those capitals. He spent the tion of music in America; for a quarter of a century first two years of the War following the German he has taught music at Columbia University, where armies on all fronts except the Italian. He sent the he is MacDowell Professor of Music. It is interesting first news of the Kerensky revolution to America from to note that Dr. Mason belongs to a famous musical Stockholm, and then went on to Russia where he family; his father, Henry Mason, founded the Mason tried in vain to have Washington warned of the im¬ and Hamlin Organ and Piano Company; his grand¬ pending Bolshevik revolution. After returning to father was Lowell Mason, the composer. Germany again, he witnessed the Spartacan uprisings of January and March, 1919. He attended the open¬ ing sessions of the National Assembly at Weimar, "Applied Composition" is the title of an unusual and his history of those days, "And the Kaiser Ab¬ new ten-session course announced by the Institute's dicates," published by the Yale University Press, is Department of Photography to begin Thursday eve¬ still a standard work on the 1918 revolution. ning, October 25. Mr. G. L. Briem, Etcher and Lithographer, will be the instructor. Mr. Bouton first met Adolf Hitler in 1922. Since that time he has been constantly on the scene to watch The work will include analysis by sketching of a the steady rise to power of "Der Fuehrer," and in number of photographs, including prints in the Per¬ 1932, at the time of Hitler's election campaign, Mr. manent Collection of the Department. This will be Bouton was in intimate contact with Hitler. He followed by assignment of a definite problem in flew with him on many of his trips and had innumer¬ composition. Students will be asked to bring in able other excellent opportunities for observing the interpretations for criticism. All interested are in¬ German leader in all situations. vited to attend the opening session. The unusual experience which Mr. Bouton has had in connection with his long newspaper service abroad, together with his exhaustive knowledge of European history, gives him a decidedly unique and important background for his lectures. Mr. Bouton is a native of Chautauqua County, New York, a graduate of Eastern High School, Washing¬ ton, D. C., and an LL.B. from the Albany Law School. For four years he was a practicing lawyer in James¬ town, New York, before his newspaper career began. The Bouton family is of Huguenot lineage established in this country by John Bouton in the year 1635.

Hiking is a hobby with Ernest A. Dench. He knows from long experience the ingredients for an S. Miles Bouton with Franz von Papen, former German Chancellor in the Garden of Johanna Gadski's Villa enjoyable day with Mother Nature. Page Fifty-eight THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

POETRY READINGS CHEMISTRY TODAY Poetry should be heard and not Mankind is at last beginning to tap the wealth read. If circumstances preclude which is contained in extremely diluted form in the the possibility of hearing poetry waters of the seven seas. The plant of the Ethyl-Dow spoken, then it should at least be Company near Wilmington, N. C., is successfully ex¬ read aloud, for its message is ad¬ tracting bromine from the Atlantic Ocean at the rate dressed to the ear and not to the of two million dollars worth a year. As a by-product eye. Merely to read a poem si¬ of this process, the chemists at the plant have just lently is to lose much, if not all, of succeeded in extracting from the water the first few its beauty; it is as if one were to grains of gold and silver. The cost of this sea-gold is read a musical score and expect still about ten times the market price for mined gold, thereby to have appreciated the full merit of the but the extraction is hailed as a step forward in the composition. It is curious that so obvious a truth effort to convert to man's use the untold billions in could have been generally forgotten during the nine¬ gold, radium, platinum and other minerals which the teenth century. Perhaps one reason why it became ocean holds. These great advances, together with the the common practice to read poetry in silence was discovery of Heavy Water by Professor Harold C. the painfully sentimental type of elocution which Urey, are changing radically the concepts of chem¬ came into fashion in the early Victorian period. It ical resources formerly held by scientists and econ¬ was William Butler Yeats who recognized the ab¬ omists. So many tenets cherished by chemists of a surdity of this custom in the Nineties; he combated generation ago have been disproven that "The Be¬ it valiantly by traveling from city to city, speaking ginning of a New Chemistry" is the fitting title of his verses to the accompaniment of a harp, in the Professor Urey's lecture-demonstration on Tuesday manner of the early Irish minstrels. Vachel Lindsay evening, October 23. performed a similar service later by including with his poems directions for their chanting. There will be a lecture-recital on "Moods in Words and Music" INDUSTRIAL RUSSIA by Dario Shindell on Thursday afternoon, Novem¬ ber 1, and a poetry reading and song recital on Fri¬ Allan Monkhouse day afternoon, November 2, by Jean W. Wadley was sent to Russia by the and Milo Miloradovich. Metropolitan Vickers Both Mr. Shindell and Mrs. Wadley are dramatic Company in 1924 as readers of unusual gifts. Their recitals are given with chief electrical engineer piano accompaniment, each selection being prefaced in charge of the trans¬ with a brief account of its significance. Mr. Shindell formers and switchgear was born in Warsaw, his father being a Polish diplo¬ contract for the Moscow mat and his mother an Englishwoman. While a Electricity Supply. He student at the University of California, an appearance was appointed manager in Shaw's "Candida" started him on a stage career for the Vickers Company in which he was starred in "Young Woodley" and in the U.S.S.R. in 1930 "Appearances," both in this country and in England. and was in full charge of In London he perfected his original lecture-music- numerous important con¬ dramatic programs and they have been received with tracts until his arrest on high favor wherever presented. charges of conspiracy and sabotage. He was the cen¬ tral figure in the spectacular trial of the British en¬ gineers in Moscow last winter; the British Govern¬ Whenever music lovers meditate on the appeal of ment, it will be remembered, abrogated its trade Richard Crooks' fine tenor voice and superb musi¬ agreement with the U.S.S.R. as a protest against the cianship, their meditation is sweet. The quality arrest of Monkhouse and his associates. Mr. Monk- of that voice has made the name of Crooks familiar house will speak on "Life in a Russian Industrial to the entire musical world. Richard Crooks started City" at the first Forum meeting Tuesday evening, singing as a choir boy in a Trenton church at the October 30. Mr. Monkhouse's recent book, "Mos¬ age of nine. The choirmaster soon discovered his cow: 1911 to 1933," is considered one of the authori¬ genius and trained the young singer so thoroughly tative works on current Russia. His opinions are that in three years he was able to do justice to the based not only on a wide experience of industrial honor of a duet with Mine. Schumann-Heink. From conditions in all parts of the Soviet Union, but also then on, Richard Crooks' path to musical heights on first-hand acquaintance with the pre-war Russia of was a steady progress. Today, leading tenor of the the Czars and with the chaotic revolutionary Russia Metropolitan Opera Company and crowned with lau¬ of 1916-19. rels from the concert stage, he ranks as America's favorite tenor, a singer with a golden voice and per¬ To avoid disturbing the lecturer and audience. fect control of his instrument who captivates every Members unable to reach the Academy before the audience privileged to hear him. Few of our great lecture has begun are requested to take seats in the artists are in wider recital favor. rear of the Hall. Page Fifty-nine THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

CURRENT BOOKS ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE The opening, on Sunday afternoon, October 21, of the series of twelve lectures on "Contemporary Books Worth Reading," by Professor William Lyon Phelps, is an important event in the Institute year. With crisp, flowing sentences and clear, well-considered judg¬ ments, Professor Phelps will build a bridge by which Members may cross the annual flood of fall books without becoming lost in the welter of indiscriminate advertisements that fill the pages of the literary sup¬ plements. Publishers' lists, to be sure, are not so large as they were in 1929; at a recent convention several leaders in the field announced that their houses were planning to produce fewer and more serious books this year than for several seasons past; but the num¬ ber of volumes published daily is still large and each week new "important" works of "genius" are hailed by one or another of the critics. In these circum¬ stances the appraisals of new books by a scholar whose judgments have been proved by years of ex¬ perience to be reliable, whose good taste is above question and whose sympathies are wide—these ap¬ One of the experiments Mr. Manning will per¬ praisals are an invaluable aid in the selection of form in his Lecture-Demonstration, November 2 reading for the long evenings when "the year draws in the dav." For one whole evening the lecture hall of the Poly¬ technic Institute of Brooklyn will be transformed into a miniature laboratory of science when Mr. Ellis L. Manning, of the General Electric Company's research laboratory, delivers his graphic talk, "Adventures in Science," on Friday, November 2. This lecture-dem¬ onstration was first planned for the Academy Lecture Hall. The electric power in that auditorium, how¬ ever, proved inadequate for Mr. Manning's needs, and through the generous action of President Harry Stanley Rogers of the Polytechnic Institute its hall at 99 Livingston Street will be used for the meeting. This lecture-demonstration will present a faithful series of glimpses of the most recent developments in one of America's renowned research institutions. It will introduce the audience to the invisibly mysterious electron, acquaint it with microamperes, and reveal the workings of cathode rays. The methods, philoso¬ phy and objective of the research scientist will prob¬ ably be better understood at the close of the address than they were before, for Mr. Manning is himself a research man, interested in the problems of un¬ known things. He has announced that he will bring various scien¬ tific "gadgets" and will perform a repertoire of scien¬ tific experiments which will involve vacuum tubes of different types, especially the new and versatile Thy- ratron, certain chemical gases, and high frequency radiations. Although these will be merely hints of what has been going on in the research laboratory with which he is associated, and will be carried out Of the countless millions of men and women who simply for the better information of the audience, the have lived, labored and died on this earth, only a lecture will clearly reveal the new kinds of tools few hundred are remembered. When the spirit begins which are being fashioned for the convenience of a to soar unduly this thought will medicine its expan¬ world fast becoming largely electrical in its way of sion. "Monuments!" observed Motley. "What are doing things. they? The very pyramids have forgotten their Out of such activities as will be portrayed by Mr. builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, Manning in "Adventures in Science" are proceeding not stones, are the true monuments of the great." (Continued on page 65) Page Sixty THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

CURRENT HISTORY BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER Dr. Albert E. Hind- During the years immediately following the World marsh is Assistant Dean War there were few plays or books dealing with it of Harvard College and which achieved any popularity. The subject was still Visiting Professor of too painful, the scars were too fresh to be touched Government at Tufts Uni¬ with impunity. For a decade the combatant peoples versity. He is the author tried to forget the horrors of the War period. With of "Force in Peace," pub¬ time, however, the wounds healed over; it was possi¬ lished last year by the ble to regard the War in more true perspective; artists Harvard University Press, could treat the mad period with detachment; the and of numerous articles public could face and accept the truth without wincing on international law. This and turning away. And so the memories of Europe's summer he gave courses nightmare were revived in numerous novels and stage on European Govern¬ successes. Crowds waited in line to see such sombre ments and on Far Eastern Politics at the Harvard Law motion pictures as "Cavalcade." And as it became School, then went to Europe for further study of the possible to live over in memory and to contemplate political situation abroad. For years a student of the dark hours of the world's madness, it became Japanese policy, he is at present writing a diplomatic clear that such misery was only partially made bear¬ history of Japan. A scholar with these qualifications able by the aid of God's great gift to man, the sense makes an interesting lecturer on foreign affairs; he is of humor. When death and destruction were on every able to see with the eye of an historian the real forces hand, the people still could laugh and "carry on." which are at work behind the outward pomps and And of all the humorists who diverted and encouraged semblances of power. The first of Dr. Hindmarsh's the home population and the soldiers in the field there lectures on "Current History" will be given on Tues¬ was none more heroically gay, more enchantingly day afternoon, October 23. amusing, or regarded with a more profound affection, than Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, the creator of "Old Bill." Since the War, Captain Bairnsfather SCREEN TRAVEL has added to his reputation by lectures illustrated The spell of the travel lecture continues as potent with slides from his drawings and followed by car¬ as ever. Observe the capacity audiences now enjoying toons drawn on the platform. He is bringing his new Mr. De Cou's lectures. A remark of Dr. Johnson lecture, "Old Bill Laughs at Europe," to the Institute to Boswell is perhaps the answer to this perennial on Friday evening, October 26. Mark well this eve¬ popularity of the travel lecture. Boswell inquired ning on your calendar. whether Johnson did not think the Giant's Causeway worth seeing. "Well, Sir, yes, worth seeing," the Doctor replied, "but not worth going to see." There is much in the world worth seeing, but the trouble and expense of going to see it gives to vicarious travel its great appeal. Then, too, travel isn't just going some¬ where. Travel is getting something, some¬ thing different from what one leaves behind. Traveling by the screen route may lack the thrill of having one's luggage plastered with the labels of foreign hotels, but it has certain advantages, not the least of which is that one can see the things worth seeing that are not within leisure and means to go and see. Since hard times and a depreciated dollar have tem¬ porarily closed the gateways to Europe for so many potential overseas travelers, more than normal interest in arm-chair travel under such excellent guides as the Institute provides is to be expected.

Milo Miloradovtch, who appears with Jean Wilde Wadley in the Poetry and Song program Friday afternoon, November 2, is so¬ prano soloist at the Riverside Church, Man¬ hattan, and one of the leading singers of the Russian Opera Company. Their attractive pro¬ gram is given on page 68. Page Sixty-one THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Thurs., Nov. 8. Department of Political Science. Lec¬ The INSTITUTE BULLETIN ture, by the Hon. Ruth Bryan Owen, Minister Plenipo¬ tentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Denmark. Subject: PUBLISHED BY This Business of Diplomacy. Music Hall, 8:15 p.m. THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Weekly Ticket admits one. Fri., Nov. 9. Department of Fine Arts and Architecture. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Illustrated Lecture, by Dorothy Adlow, M.A., of Bos¬ ton. Subject: Russian Art Today. Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Annual Subscription, $2.00 To Members, Free Fri., Nov. 9. Department of Philology. Fourth in a Single Numbers, 15 cents Postage, extra, 3 cents Course of fifteen Lectures on "The Enjoyment of Litera¬ ture," Dr. Houston Peterson, Chairman. Lecture, by Vera Brittain, Author of "Testament of Youth," Life Membership in the Institute $500.00 "Women's Work in Modern England," etc. Subject: Journalism as a Woman s Job. Lecture Hall, 8:15 p.m. Sustaining Members, Annual Dues 25.00 The Weekly Ticket does not admit to this Lecture. Single admission, $1.00 to Members; to Non-Members. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $1.50. Associate Membership, Registration Fee $5.00 Fri., Nov. 9. Department of Geography. First in a Series of five International Music and Dance Travelogues. Sub¬ Associate Membership, Annual Dues 10.00 ject: Italy. Program: Illustrated Lecture on Sunny Days in Naples, Rome, Florence and Venice, by Wirt W. Bar- nitz; An Evening in Napoli, with Nino Cardosia, Tenor, Officers of the Board of Trustees in famous Italian Opera arias and Neapolitan Songs; Vincenzo Paladino, Mandolin Virtuoso (Court Soloist Edward C. Blum President of the late Imperial Russian Court), and Flora Bovio, Walter H. Crittenden First Vice-President Premiere Danseuse, featuring the Tarantella, folk dance Adrian Van Sinderen Second Vice-President of Italy. Music Hall, 8:15 p.m. Weekly Ticket ad¬ Sumner Ford Third Vice-President mits one. Edwin P. Maynard Treasurer Sat., Nov. 10. Chess Club. Members of the Brooklyn Insti¬ John H. Denbigh Secretary tute Chess Club will meet for play from 2 to 6 p.m. and from 8 to 11 p.m. Art Room. Officers of the Council Sat., Nov. 10. Young Members' Course. Illustrated Lec¬ Hon. William R. Bayes President ture, by Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, Naturalist, of Green¬ Stansbury Hacar Secretary wich, Ct. Subject: Know and Enjoy the Starry Heavens. Motion Picture Program, including Alice in Wonderland, Director featuring Charlotte Henry. Music Hall, 2:15 p.m. Charles D. Atkins Sat., Nov. 10. Department of Zoology. Illustrated Lec¬ ture, by Dr. Claude W. Leister, Curator, New York Botanical Garden. Subject: Photographing Our Native "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Birds. Lecture Hall, 8:15 p.m. Live well; how long or short, permit to heaven."—Milton. Sat., Nov. 10. Department of Dramatic Art. Motion Pic¬ EVENTS FROM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, ture Program, including latest News Releases and Twenti¬ eth Century, featuring John Barrymore and Carole TO WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1934 Lombard. Music Hall, 8:15 p.m. Weekly Ticket Wed., Nov. 7. Department of Geography. Last in a admits one. Course of five illustrated Travel Lectures, by Branson Sun., Nov. 11. Department of Music. Third in a Course De Cou. Subject: Imperial Peiping and Manchukuo of five Lecture-Recitals on "The Spiritual Significance of (illustrated by over 250 beautifully colored lantern views Beethoven's Symphonies," by Dr. Daniel Gregory Mason, with musical settings). Music Hall, 4 p.m. Weekly Professor of Music, Columbia University. Subject: Fate Ticket admits one. Tickets used for Mr. De Cou's Lec¬ Knocks at the Door (Symphony V). Lecture Hall, 3 p.m. ture this afternoon will not admit to the Lecture Wednes¬ day evening, November 7. Mon., Nov. 12. Department of Botany. Last of two illus¬ Wed., Nov. 7. Philologie—Section fran^aise: langue et trated Lectures, by Mrs. John Walton Paris, F.R.H.S., litterature. La seconde d'une serie de trois conferences of New York. Subject: Intimate Glimpses of English sur "L'Histoire Contemporaine," par M. Raymond Lange, Gardens. Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Correspondant americain du journal "LTntransigeant," de Paris. Sujet: Les relations franco-allemandes. Salle des Mon., Nov. 12. Department of Psychology. Second in a Series of five Lectures on "Psychology for a Time of Conferences, 8:15 p.m. Crisis," by H. A. Overstreet, Professor and Head of Wed., Nov. 7. Department of Geography. Last in a the Department of Philosophy and Psychology, College of Course of five illustrated Travel Lectures, by Branson the City of New York. Subject: Developing the Inventive De Cou. Subject: Imperial Peiping and Manchukuo Mind. Music Hall, 8.15 p.m. Weekly Ticket admits (illustrated by over 250 beautifully colored lantern views one. with musical settings). Music Hall, 8.15 p.m. Weekly Ticket admits one. This Lecture is a repetition of the Tues., Nov. 13. Department of Political Science. Third Lecture by Mr. De Cou on Wednesday afternoon, Novem¬ in a Series of nine Lectures on "Current History," by ber 7. Tickets used for Wednesday afternoon will not Dr. Stanley High, Publicist, of New York. Lecture Hall, admit to the Lecture Wednesday evening. 4 p.m. Weekly Ticket admits one. Thurs., Nov. 8. Department of Political Science. First Tues., Nov. 13. Department of Political Science. Lec¬ in a Series of three Lectures on "Current History," by ture, by Dr. Albert E. Hindmarsh, Assistant Professor Gareth Jones, M.A., Cambridge University; Correspon¬ of Public and International Law, Harvard University. dent of London Times. Subject: The Enigma of Bolshevik Subject: Current History and Japan's World Challenge. Russia. Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Lecture Hall, 8:15 p.m. Page Sixty-two THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Tues., Nov. 13. Department of Philology. First in a Series of three Lectures, by Gertrude Stein, Author. Subject: The Gradual Making of the Making of Amer¬ icans. Music Hall, 8:15 p.m. Weekly Ticket admits one. Reserved Seat to Members, 50^, 75

of Being EarnestScene from Booth Tarkington's "Child and adult playgoer alike may revel in . . . these plays "Clarence"; Scenes from Sheridan's "The Rivals" and . . . skillfully and lovingly done."—Theatre Arts Magazine. "The School for ScandaT'). Lecture Hall, 4 p.m. Tues., Nov. 20. Department of Astronomy. The Observa¬ tory of Department will be open to Members who present Weekly Ticket for observation of the Moon, Saturn THE CLARE TREE and Double Stars. William Henry, Vice-President of Department, in charge. Academy of Music, 8 to 9:30 p.m. MAJOR Tues., Nov. 20. Department of Philology. Fifth in a Course of fifteen Lectures on "The Enjoyment of Litera¬ ture," Dr. Houston Peterson, Chairman. Lecture, by Children's Theatre Phyllis Bottoms, Author. Subject: The Charles Dickens of Tomorrow. Lecture Hall, 8:15 p.m. The Weekly Ticket does not admit to this Lecture. Single admission, Company $1.00 to Members; to Non-Members, $1.50. First in a Series of Six Children's Plays Tues., Nov. 20. Department of Zoology. Lecture, by Dr. William Beebe, Director of Tropical Research, New York Zoological Society. Subject: Five Hundred Fathoms "UNDER THE LILACS" Down (illustrated by motion pictures and colored slides). By Louisa May Alcott Music Hall, 8:15 p.m. Weekly Ticket admits one. Reserved Seats to Members, 50 cents and 75 cents. Guest Ticket, 50 cents.

THE SENIOR MEMBER In the Institute's mail a few days ago there came a letter postmarked "Rochester, N. H." and written hy Mrs. S. Sheppard Bryan, for many years one of the most active and devoted Members and long sec¬ retary of the Department of Political Science. Re¬ moval from Brooklyn causes Mrs. Bryan to resign after 44 years of association with the Institute. "In severing," she writes, "my connection with the Insti¬ tute, I cannot be satisfied to send in a bare resigna¬ tion, for the Institute has been such a significant feature in my life for many years. How many I do not know, but I should not be surprised to know that I am the oldest Member. I never supposed that I should break the old relationship, but I am leaving Brooklyn and so shall not be able to attend. With poignant regret, I offer my resignation." Mrs. Bryan's departure from her long Institute anchorage will be sincerely regretted by many friends Betty Macdonald who plays "Bab" in the Membership. She became an Associate Mem¬ in "Under the Lilacs" ber in 1890, and she will be surprised to learn that her membership of 44 years is far from being the SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27 "oldest" in the Institute roster. The Bulletin be¬ 3 o'clock lieves that Mr. Thomas Prosser, Jr. is entitled to Remaining Productions the honor of holding the membership of greatest age. On September 5, 1866, when Mr. Prosser was at the Dec. 1. "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" ripe age of twelve, he was made a Life Member by his father, Thomas Prosser, an honored Member of Dec. 29. "Pocahontas" his day. There are probably a score or more Mem¬ Feb. 9. "Nobody's Girl" bers who enrolled between 1866 and 1890. Mar. 16. "Dick Whittington and His Cat" Thomas Prosser, Senior, was much interested in Apr. 20. "The Prince's Secret" the work of the Brooklyn Institute of his time, sup¬ porting it liberally and actively aiding its efforts by Opera House Academy of Music personal service. In the Institute Minutes dated November 5, 1854, he is mentioned as follows: Tickets for "Under the Lilacs" now on Sale To Members: 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50 "Resolved, That the thanks of this Institution are To Non-Members: $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 due Mr. Thomas Prosser for the care he has taken in obtaining and securing the execution of the COURSE TICKETS FOR THE SIX PLAYS NOW ON SALE To Members: $1.25, $2.50, $3.75, $5.00 splendid medal of our patron, Augustus Graham, To Non-Members: $2.50, $3.50, $4.50, $6.00 and which this Board considers as a work in the first style of the art." Page Sixty-four THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

WALKING Simple pleasures, wrote Oscar Wilde, are the last refuge of the complex. In this age so many are obliged to live highly complicated lives that it behooves us to cultivate and cherish as many as possible of those simple pleasures which can give rest and refreshment from the tension of twentieth-century existence. Among these pleasures none is more soul-satisfying than walking, nor is any form of exercise more generally health-giving to young and old alike. The body and nerves are soothed by the gentle motion of an even pace and the mind is left free to scale the heights of thought. Many of the world's great writers have composed as they walked over the countryside, returning home to pour out upon paper the thoughts arranged under the sky. De Quincey and Heine, Words¬ worth and Lowell and Dickens have written eloquently of their long walks over THE CHRISTOPHER HOUSE Built about 1750 by descendants of Hans Christofelsz, one of the settlers at Old unfrequented roads and lanes; men of ac¬ Town in 1661. Joseph Christopher was a member of the Committee of Safety tion, Garibaldi, Morel, Gladstone, and in 1775, and his home became a patriotic headquarters many more, rested from their labors by tak¬ ing long tramps over the hills. In these days of A FIELD TRIP hurrying steel the pedestrian has been driven An especially interesting Field Trip will be con¬ from the highways by the speeding automobile; but ducted on Saturday afternoon, November 3, by Mrs. there are still trails through the woods, towpaths along the edges of disused canals, paths through the R. Edson Doolittle. The itinerary includes the fields and along the shore, where the quiet wanderer Christopher House, one of the fine old stone houses may find peace and beauty and the reassurance of the still standing on Staten Island, the Dutch Reformed changing seasons. Under the leadership of experi¬ Church and Sailors' Snug Harbor. Tradition con¬ enced guides, the Institute is going to introduce many nects the Christopher House with Revolutionary days, Members this season to some of these enchanting where it was a rendezvous of patriotic Staten Island¬ spots. ers, its proximity to the "Great Swamp" offering op¬ portunity of escape in case of surprise. A secret (Continued from page 60) passageway making escape easy may still be seen. The house is situated in a particularly picturesque new tools with which to make electricity more useful part of the Island. than ever. Eventually, say the research scientists, an all-electrical world may be expected to emerge into The Dutch Reformed Church was established in reality. In that sort of world, electricity will be time- 1660, only a few years later than the meeting of the clocked as the great super-worker, asking only to be oldest Congregation of that sect in America. The Dutch language was spoken in it as late as 1751. An provided with utensils to do its work for man. unusual plan of the first church building and many Astonishing as this may seem to a generation whose interesting relics will be specially on view for Mem¬ fathers can still remember kerosene lamps, wash boil¬ bers. The present edifice is the fifth building to have ers, sadirons and belted machine-shops, it is scarcely been erected on the same site. more surprising than some of the "stunts" which will Sailors' Snug Harbor is a city in itself. It was be shown on the evening of November 2. founded by Robert Richard Randall, who left $12,- Mr. Manning is expected to speak of radium and 500 in money, and a 20-acre farm for its establishment of uranium and their properties, and to demonstrate and maintenance in perpetuity. The founder little in an impressive manner that these substances are dreamed at the time that his farm would prove, emitting mysterious emanations entirely beyond the through the growth of the City, a veritable gold mine. control of man. He is also expected to show the It was bounded, roughly, by 4th and 5th Avenues, versatility of vacuum tubes in general and to clearly and 6th and 10th Streets, the Wanamaker stores oc¬ establish their ability to "see," "hear" and "feel." cupying part of this site. At Sailors' Snug Harbor Mr. Manning has the knack of putting in concise, there are eight fine large buildings all connected. popular language the story of electrical research in The grounds are beautifully landscaped. There are the past few decades. His address will intimately also two churches, hospitals, homes of officials, and describe a few of the great achievements which stand other buildings, a well-run farm and domestic gardens to the credit of research in the distinctively modern within the domain. Aged American seamen find here era of human progress. a spacious and real home for their last years. Page Sixty-fiTC THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

AN ALCOTT CLASSIC CODE DAYS One of the best-liked stories of Louisa M. Alcott's For those who are struggling to adjust their lives series of children's books, "Under the Lilacs," will to the strain of code days and modern living, Pro¬ be seen for the first time as a play when the Children's fessor Harry Allen Overstreet offers a very human Theatre of New York presents it at the Institute on philosophy, based on the newer knowledge of per¬ Saturday afternoon, October 27. sonality. Professor Overstreet is coming again for five Monday evenings, beginning November 5, to dis¬ cuss this "Psychology for a Time of Crisis." He not only diagnoses our psychological ailments, but also points the way to psychological health and to the gate¬ ways to the life rich and full. Through all this upheaval and pessimism of the machine age Pro¬ fessor Overstreet has been one of our sanest pilots.

AMERICAN ART The growing interest in rediscovering and evalua¬ ting an American cultural tradition has brought about a corresponding interest in American art as an ex¬ pression of that tradition. In recognition of this deepening concern in native art, the Institute's School of Pedagogy is offering a new course entitled "Amer¬ ica Interpreted by her Artists" that should prove a helpful medium for its followers toward understand¬ Proof that modern children are not so sophisticated ing and appreciating the progress made by American as their elders paint them lies in the overwhelming art and the importance of that progress to the welfare popularity of Miss Alcott's work. In every vote of our national life. This course will be conducted taken among the juvenile audiences who attend the by Mrs. Helen Appleton Read, well-known art critic Children's Theatre productions, hundreds of children of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle who has long given dis¬ name Alcott books as those they most wish to see tinctive service to the promotion of interest in the dramatized. In the past few seasons, Clare Tree fine arts. Guest lecturers will include the following Major, Director of the Children's Theatre, has given authorities whose critical writings have been influ¬ them "Little Women," "Little Men" and "An Old- ences in bringing about the "American Renaissance": Fashioned Girl," while this year brings to the stage Mr. Lloyd Goodrich, art critic and author of "The the sprightly story of Bab and Betty, of Ben and his Life of Thomas Eakins"; Director Philip N. Youtz, dog Sancho, which Miss Alcott named "Under the of the Brooklyn Museums; Mr. Forbes Watson, Lilacs." Director of the Public Works of Art Projects, who Perhaps one reason why boys and girls of today will speak on "The Government Takes up Art" and read the Alcott books just as eagerly as did their "The Patterns of Our Period," and Mr. Virgil grandmothers before them is that Louisa Alcott Barker, art critic. The first lecture on Tuesday after¬ possessed the gift of drawing all her characters true noon, October 23, will deal with the Pre-Civil War to life. In her own generation, she won acclaim for artists. To illustrate her discussions Mrs. Read will filling her stories with real people instead of with have many lovely slides from a comprehensive range moral caricatures for the improvement of the long- of sources in Museums and collections. An example suffering young readers. No Alcott child is an angel; of their excellence is shown below. they all have their failings—and a sense of humor. Above all, they are just as real today as they were fifty years ago. Manners change; people do not. So, when the curtain at the performance of "Under the Lilacs" goes up on the dolls' tea-party, with Bab and Betty and the dolls in their charming print frocks of 1880, when the circus boy, Ben, is discovered and adopted, children of every audience enter at once into the action and live their favorite parts as the actors portray them.

In 1840 Ralph Waldo Emerson received for his lecture before the Waltham, Mass., Lyceum a fee of five dollars plus an allowance of four quarts of oats for his horse. In the heyday of the Platform four years ago a Nobel Prize winner received a fee two "THE SCOUTING PARTY" hundred times larger than Mr. Emerson's. By William Ranney, A.N.A., 1813-1857 Page Sixty-six THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

INSTITUTE NOTES A SPANISH RECITAL Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has long been a mem¬ The romantic, full- ber of the Advisory Board of the Children's Theatre bodied traditional Span¬ of New York. For all its performances in Washing¬ ish music and the sinuous ton she has her regular box. Of the value of the national dances of Spain work the Children's Theatre is doing under the direc¬ have always held a fas¬ tion of Clare Tree Major, Mrs. Roosevelt says: cination for the Anglo- "Today, we are aroused as never before to the Saxon. They have excel¬ important part entertainment plays in setting our lent interpreters in Senora standards. We have come to realize that only Carmen Lacalle, so¬ the best should be presented to youthful minds, prano, and Senorita Pola as upon the child audience of today depends the Coman, danseuse, who standard of the theatre of tomorrow. The Chil¬ will give a Spanish re¬ dren's Theatre of New York, in its schedule of cital on Thursday after¬ plays for its third Washington season, justifies noon, October 25. Senor ^ ^ its policy of presenting worth-while entertain¬ Emilio De Torre will be ment which educates while it diverts its young at the piano. The appeal of this program is increased audiences." by the Spanish atmosphere lent to it through the The plays that will be given by the Children's authentic native costumes worn by the artists. Theatre of New York in Washington this season are Vera Brittain is an artist in words. Her book, the same as those announced for presentation at the Institute during the fall and winter. "Testament of Youth," is the outstanding autobiogra¬ phy of the women of the War generation, those women Phyllis Bottome's book, "Private Worlds," has who were in the vulnerable teens and twenties during for months closely shadowed Hervey Allen's "An¬ the cataclysm that rocked the world. Miss Brittain thony Adverse" as the best selling book of the past is an attractive Englishwoman, the wife of George year. Her other novels enjoyed a good market, but E. G. Catlin, author and lecturer. With their two those familiar with them and who have read "Private children they live in London. Heywood Broun, writ¬ ing of "Testament of Youth," says in part: "If Vera Worlds" will share Gertrude Atherton's comment Brittain waited till forty to write 'Testament of that this book is not only "the best thing Phyllis Youth' it was worth waiting for. . . . Vera Brittain Bottome has done, but from first to last is a truly waited till she was sure that she spoke for her sex, superb piece of work." This brilliant author lectures at the Institute Tuesday evening, November 20. and for her generation, and then she spoke with the tongue of women and angels." Members will have Trained for the stage, Miss Bottome has a good an opportunity of meeting this talented woman when voice and fine presence. Her subject will be "The she lectures Friday evening, November 9, on journal¬ Charles Dickens of Tomorrow." ism as a career for women. (Continued from page 57) influence on American literature, her critical writings being published in such eclectic magazines as "The Little Review." Miss Stein's apparently meaningless words for the opera produced last winter, "Four Saints in Three Acts," set the critics agog and started most of the lay audience wondering whether they were old-fashioned in preferring the libretto to be used for the conveyance of ideas rather than for mere sound effects. Miss Stein will give the first of three lectures at the Institute on Tuesday evening, Novem¬ ber 13. THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE IN 1848 (From The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 28, 1848) "Brooklyn Institute Exhibition of Paintings, Lec¬ tures and Concerts. This truly valuable institution is now about to commence its usual career of useful¬ ness during the winter months. Being decidedly the most interesting feature of Brooklyn life, it has so insinuated itself in the affections of a large class of our citizens that its absence would create much to be deplored. For this, thanks to the assiduity and un¬ selfishness of a comparatively small number of gentle¬ DR. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY A new snapshot of the illustrious Conductor men, of whom Brooklyn ought to be proud." of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Page Sixty-seven THE BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

PROGRAMS SPANISH RECITAL DARIO SHINDELL Thursday Afternoon, October 25, 4 o'clock In Senora CARMEN LACALLE, Soprano "MOODS IN WORDS AND MUSIC" Senor EMILIO DE TORRE, Pianist and Composer CLAIRE ROSS, Pianist Senorita POLA COMAN, Danseuse Thursday Afternoon, November 1 PROGRAM PROGRAM "THE DAY THAT WAS NOT REDEEMED" Giovanni Papini Rumores del Albaicin, Spanish gypsy air de Torre Der Rosenkavalier Waltzer Strauss Senor Emilio de Torre "I LIKE THEM FLUFFY" A. P. Herbert La Lisonjera Chaminade n. Songs from Spain "THE BALLAD OF THE HARP WEAVER". ..Edna St. V. Millay a. La Garrochista de Torre Valse Triste—A Flat Etude Sibelius-Chopin b. Mi pobre reja Tabuyo (Piano Solo) "Spanish Dance, No. 5" Granados c. Cancion de Cuna (cradle song) Marti Miss Ross Senora Lacalle "SCANDAL" Hans Anderson in. Spanish Dances Pictures from an Exhibition Moussorgski a. Sevilla Albeniz "GO DOWN DEATH" James Weldon Johnson b. La Arena Anonymous Musical Setting (written for Mr. Shindell) Rosamond Johnson Senorita Coman (Piano Solos) ^J "La

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RICHARD CROOKS FAMOUS OPERA, CONCERT AND RADIO STAR "Beyond any disputing Richard Crooks is the American tenor of the times. Not only has Crooks a rarely beautiful voice, a blessing that falls with disconcerting impartiality alike upon the musical and the unmusical; he has besides, and above all, the singer's instinct."—Boston T ronscript. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 8:15 o'clock Subject: "The Aria and the Song" (Arias by Handel and Donizetti; songs by Schubert, Strauss and modern composers) REMAINING CONCERTS Nov. 6. Amer. Soc. of Ancient Instruments Jan. 15. Lily Pons Nov. 13. Jose Iturbi Jan. 21. Myra Hess Nov. 27. Harvard Glee Club Feb. 8. Yehudi Menuhin Dec. 7. Lawrence Tibbett Feb. 18. Lotte Lehmann Dec. 11. Efrem Zimbalist Mar. 6. Vladimir Horowitz Dec. 17. La Forge Operatic Ensemble Mar. 19. Walter Gieseking Jan. 7. Charles Hackett Mar. 27. Monte Carlo Ballet Russe OPERA HOUSE, ACADEMY OF MUSIC REMAINING COURSE TICKETS NOW ON SALE To Members (Credit), $15; To Others, $20; To Members (Non-Credit), $12; To Others, $15 Admission to Single Concert: $1 to $3