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THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The Institute Bulletin REVISED LISTING FOR THE SEASON 1945-1946
TE TUESDAY* EVENINGS VOL. XLIX, NO. I OPERA HOUSE of the BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC
October* 30 CO NTEN T S .JOSE GRECO AND COMPANY DANCES AND MUSIC OF SPAI Major Concert Series 2 :November 20 Frontispiece : "Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn" 4 CLAUDIO ARRAU Institute Opens 122nd Season 5 Decemb~r 4 YEHUDI MENUBIN Concert and Dance Varieties 6-7 Changes in th e Major Serie 8 December 18 FREDELL LACK Musical Event of the Month 9 AMERICAN ARTISTS AWARD 1945 1 Debate on German Democracy 10 January 8 The Literature of Democracy 10 PAUL ROBESON Boston Symphony Orchestra ll January 22 ll-26 FIRST PIANO QUARTET Program Supplement Potpourri 18-19 1ebruary 5 RUDOLF SERKIN Travel Lectures - 27
1ebruary 19 Other Lectures 28-29 THE TIIEATER OF CHARLES WEIDMAN Entertainment 30 ASSISTED BY H IS DANCE COMPANY Science Notes 31
:March 12 The Brooklyn Botanic Garden 32 NATHAN MILSTEIN The Brooklyn Museum 33 :March 26 The Brooklyn Public Library 34 SALVATORE BACCALONI AND COMPANY Departments of the Institute 35 FAMOUS COMEDY SCENES FROM OPERA
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3 INSTITUTE OPENS l22nd SEASON
GOVERNOR DEWEY WILL- GIVE ADDRESS ON INSTITUTE'S ROLE IN PEACE. MUSICAL PROGRAM SALUTES ALLIES.
ADRIAN VAN SINDEREN WILL BE CHAIRMAN OF EVENING
OF THE MANY TRADITIONS THE INSTITUTE HAS sions. The Governor will also make special note established over its long history, that of of the role that the Institute itself has played for Opening Night is one of the most welcome and more than a century. He will be introduced by enjoyable. It is marked by a festive air, good Adrian Van Sinderen, President of the Institute, music, important addresses, and a general sense who will be acting as chairman of the evening. of the anticipation of good things to come. A varied and stimulating program of music The opening program for 1945-1946, which will complete the ceremonies. Preceding Mr. takes place in the Opera House on Wednesday Dewey's address, a salute to our Allies overseas evening, October 17, will be just such an occa will be played by June and Iris Yaysnoff, duo sion. However, it will stand out from other pianists. They will perform works representa opening nights in at least one major respect, for tive of Great Britain, Russia, China, France, and it will provide the Institute with its first oppor other lands, and will conclude with their stirring tunity before the assembled membership to hail marching songs. The Yaysnoff sisters are them the conclusion of war and to express the objec selves a composite of the United Nations, for tives of peace. they were born in England of a Russian father Wars are no novelty to the Institute, which and a French-Polish mother. They received is beginning its 122nd year of service to the their musical training on the Continent and, be people of Brooklyn. The Institute has lived fore settling in this country, toured the world. through five great conflicts involving our nation They bring to their playing not only consummate and has witnessed the joy that swept the people artistry but a repertory of works that includes upon their termination. The peace that faces more than four hundred of their own transcrip us now is different. It comes upon the heels tions and over fifty original compositions. of the worst man-made devastation the earth has The evening will conclude with a salute, in experienced and poses an inescapable chal another medium, to the Americas. Rousing songs lenge for all men: either they ensure the hard of Canada, Latin America, and the United States won peace or they suffer the direst of conse will be presented by the American Troubadours, quences. a .new choral group under the direction of John This year's opening night at the Institute will De Merchant. In the short period of time that be a festive one, even more so than in the past it has performed publicly, this group has won the because it celebrates a major victory for hu most fervent of praise. No music identified with manity. It will also serve another function, re the Americas is alien to the scope of the Trou PORTRAIT OF FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN minding us of the vigilance free men must keep, badours, who sing folk ballads and sophisticated oil pai11ti11g by a vigilance that can be best taught and main modern rhythms with equal ease and enjoyment. tained through the educational institutions of a ALESSANDRO LONGHI (1733-1813) Members of the ensemble are Mary Edwards, democracy. soprano; Jimme Jean Haward, mezzo-soprano; This note will be sounded by the distinguished Alan Werner, tenor; and Mr. De Merchant, FIR ST IN A SERIES OF REPRODUCTIONS OF ART WORKS ON MUSICAL guest of the evening, Hon. Thomas E. Dewey, baritone. Graham Forbes, well known popular pianist, will assist and will also provide solo SUBJECTS DRAWN FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM Governor of the State of New York. In a brief address, Mr. Dewey will discuss the role educa inter! udes. tion must play in the years ahead, especially Bef.ore the official program of the evening be adult and community education of the type fos gins, a preliminary organ recital will be given by tered by the Institute through its various divi- Rpbert Leech Bedell. 4 5 INSTITUTE OFFERS NEW SERIES: MUSICAL EVENTS OF THE MONTH A LIVELY PANORAMA OF MUSIC, DANCE, AND larly known as the Foxhole Ballet, the group Chamber Music Society mally and recorded music will be played as il drama, called "Concert and Dance Varie toured the battlefront areas for more than six A series of four unusual concerts will be given lustration. This year, however, the series will ties," is the Institute's newest subscription series. months and were a huge success wherever they during 1945-1946 by the Brooklyn Chamber run throughout the season, thanks to its grow Celebrated artists drawn from each of these went. Their appearance at the Institute will be Music Society, which ushers in its eighth cor1- ing popularity with Institute members. The fields will be featured in five colorful productions one of their first in the United States, coming secutive season under the guidance of irs foun first eight sessions, beginning October 26, will held monthly and designed to appeal to every shortly after the company returns from over der, Carl H . Tollefsen. The group will foi_Jow deal with " Conventions in Opera." member of the family. The stress will definitely seas. Their program abounds in color and its established policy of presenting both the fa be on entertainment. The performers will in variety, running the gamut from the more tradi miliar and lesser-known works of the past mas American Artists Series elude artists who are being called back to the tional ballet to gay modern dances. It will in ters together with outstanding compositions by Ten recitals will be presented in the American Institute by popular request and others whose clude, among others, the Czechoslovakian "Har our contemporaries. Artists Series for 1945-1946. Each of the solo appearance here has long been desired. The vest Night" to the music· of Dvorak, a lively ·The first concert will be held on Tuesday eve ists will be a singer or instrumentalist of excep curtain wi ll rise on the new series on Tuesday "Circus" to the rollicking melodies of the Gay ning, October 23. The program will open with tional ability who shows promise of ranking evening, November 13. N ineties, and "The Man I Love," danced to a chamber wo.rk celebrated for its exquisite with the better known virtuosos of our time. Gusty Eli zabethan ballads and haunting sea Gershwin's music. The director of the Foxhole melody, the Trio in D minor, Opus 49, by Men This fact alone should create wide interest among chanties of the wandering troubadour will hold Ballet, Grant Mouradoff, was formerly a leading delssohn. The contemporary note will be heard Institute members, many of whom have found the spotlight in the first program. Richard Dyer soloist with the Ball et Russe de Monte Carlo. in the second number when Youry Bilstin, Rus the series a rewarding musical experience in the Bennet, the "Twentieth Century Minstrel," who When a tap dancer and harmonica player sian-American composer and first 'cellist of the past. The participating soloist who gives the has delighted audiences in many of the great interpret the classics in joint recital, it would Society, plays his own " Caucasian Songs and outstanding performance during the current sea concert halls of America, brings the finesse and seem that almost anything could. happen. But Dances," based on themes he heard in his native son will receive the American Artists Award for modern techniques of today to hi s singing of when the dancer is Paul Draper, master of the countryside as a boy. The work is written for 1946, which, among other things, will provide the homespun folklore of yesterday. Accom tap, and the musician is Larry Adler, world's unaccompanied 'cello, a form marked by a the winner with an appearance in the Major panying himself on a Spanish guitar, he offers greatest harmonica virtuoso, the result is gen u haunting expressiveness characteristic of the Concert Series the following year. The series so ngs of love, tragedy, and gay humor, includ ine artistry and the assurance of an extraordi barifone instrument. will open on Sunday afternoon, November 4, ing such items as "Barbara All en," " Green nary program. The Draper-Adler combination, The "Carnival des Animaux" of Saint-Saens, with Josefina Bocchetta, contralto. Born in sleeves," and "The Foggy Dew." The bard's which has " packed" houses all across the nation, played in its entirety by the Society's nine-piece, New York City, Miss Bocchetta received inten rich tenor voice, intimate style, and magnetic wi ll appear on Tuesday evening, January 15. two-piano chamber orchestra, will close the eve sive musical training both here and in Rome. personality give unique expression to his amaz Draper's original choreography blends modern ning's program. The music was composed in Her appearance in opera, in concert, and on the ingly varied repertory of British, Welsh, Iri sh dance technique with the grace and beauty of 1886 for a Mardi Gras concert in Paris. Al radio has been received most favorably by the and American songs. ballet, and has won for him the title, "Nijinski though it was not intended for publication until critics. The ballet troupe which our soldiers cheered of Tap." Adler brings skilled musicianship to after Saint-Saens' death, one movement, "The in the army camps as well as in the great cities the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart and Swan," escaped the prohibition of the composer of Europe will give the second program in the adds a superb se nse of color, phrasing, and and has become a concert favorite. Philip series, Tuesday evenin g, December 11. Popu- rhythm that has made a concert in strument of James, noted American composer, will be the I guest conductor in this portion of the
Let's Talk About Opera Probably no type of music excites so much general discussion, pro and con, as does opera. Not only is the average opera-goer in the habit of making a detailed post-mortem of a given performance, but he also feels free to pass judg ment on the operatic form itself-its glories or its absurdities, its color and beauty or its dra matic pretentiousness. This fertile area of discussion will be the basis of the third annual series of " Inquiries into Mu sic," conducted on Friday afternoons by Miles Kastendieck, music critic of the Brooklyn Eagle. Angna Enters Richard Dyer-Bennet As in the past, the meetings will be held infor- Youry Bilstin 6 9 DEBATE ON GERMAN DEMOCRACY BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DR. SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY, CONDUCTOR
NOVEMBER 16 JANUARY 11
FEBRUARY 15
Hubertus zu Loewenstein Johannes Sleel MARCH 15 APRIL 12
0 E WEDNESDAY EVEN! G OF EACII MONTH I ica. For more than a decade he has energeti the regular Institute Forum Series will be de cally denounced azism, and finds it another voted to a debate on a question of paramount and more ruthless form of the Pruss ian men importance in national or international affairs. tality that has dominated German life for al SUBSCRIPTION TO THE SERIES Known as the "Debate of the Month," this new most a century. Mr. Steel advocates a " hard Institute Member Non-Member se ri es-within-a-series will present authoritative peace" that will extirpate this political disease. speakers for both si des of the issues in question, ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA and the debate will be followed by open dis $9.60, $12.00, $15.00 $10.80, $13.20, $16.20 THE liTERATURE OF DEMOCRACY cussion from the floor. A stimulating evening FiRST BALCONY FIRST BALCONY is anticipated on October 24, the night of the Institute members who were fortunate enough $9.60, $12.00, $15.00 $10.80, $13.20, $16.20 first debate, when. Prince Hubertus zu Loewen to attend last season's series, " Democracy in stein and Johannes Steel discuss "Can We Trust America," will recall the wealth of political, cul ECOND BALCONY SECOND BALCONY the Germans to Build a Democracy?" tural, and social ideas that was uncovered and $7.20, $9.60 $8.40, $10.80 Prince zu Loewenstein is well known in discussed in the course of the twenty lectures. ALL PRICES INCLUDE 20% TAX America for his impassioned writin gs and lec The seri~s will be continued in another form tures against the Nazi regime. A member of during 1945-1946. It will consist of twenty in ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS ARE AVAILABLE the aristocracy, he was born in Austria and formal discussion meetings held weekly on Mon numbers twelve Roman - German Emperors day afternoons, beginning November 5. among his ancestors. With the publication of The new series will be called " Basic Readings INQUIRE NOW: THE INSTITUTE BOX OFFICE: STERUNG 3-6700 one of hi s early books, .After J-litler's 1nll: yer in American Democracy" and, as its title sug lllan y's Co11 ring Reich, Prince Loewenstein was gests, will center about the discussion of primary deprived of German citizenship by the Nazi source materials. Six books will be read and government. He believes that "a politically discussed in turn: 'Jbe Rights of J\ttan, by and socially free German people would consti Thomas Paine; 'Jbe 'Jedenrlist Pnpers, elec ted tute in itself a guarantee of peace and social Essays, by Ralph Waldo Emerson; 'Jbe Life progress as no divided Germany can." lll!d "Writings of .Abrnbmn Lincoln, 1be Ed11ca Johannes Steel, author of 1be 1r.ilure of Eu tion of 'Henry .Ada11rs, and 1be ReJmblic, by rope , radio commentator, newspaper columnist, Charles A. Beard. and war correspondent, is equally familiar with The discussion leader will be Dr. Howard W . the beginning of Hitlerism in his native Ger Hintz, who was chairman last year. Dr. Hintz many. After refusing to join tbe Nazi party, is Assistant Professor of English and Co-Director he was arrested and managed to escape to Amer- of American Studies at Brooklyn College. ll 10 Styled_for Women Glittering sequins light up this fl attering two-piece rayon crepe with high-or-low neckline. Black, brown or plum . One of our sparkling dress-ups for sizes 16% to 24lf2. 14.95
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OPENING PROGRAM ADRIAN VAN S rNDEREN, Chairman of the Evening
Wednesday Evening, October 17, 1945, at8:30 o' clock
The Address Will Be Given by HON.THOMASE.DEWEY GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
The Musical Program: I. SALUTE TO OU R ALLIES OVERSEAS R ussian Airs Traditional Valse B1·illante Chopin Country Gardens Grainger The Swan Saint-Saens Ode to China arr. J. and I. Yaysnoff Marching Songs of the United Nations arr. J. and I. Yaysnoff June and Iris Yaysnoff, Duo-Pianists
PROGRAM CONTINUES ON PAGE 15
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These two experiences left Nohl with-an 28). "Stony Water'' is the name of his farn1 intense fear of the water. It was not until he in the Adirondacks where he spends most of his was in high school that he resolved to overcome time when not on a lecture tour. Mr. Linter the phobia. After forcing himself to learn to meyer insists that it is an honest-to-goodness swim, he began to submerge in a fresh water farm where products of the soil are grown for lake equipped with a " tin can helmet." Soon use-not just for fun. However, poetry re his fear had turned to fascination and under mains one of the chief products of " Stony water exploration became hi s life work. Water." Mr. Untermeyer does his writing in a study located a good distance from both his ~wf.~ 'f All Seats Reserved: In stitute Members, 30c, 60c, 90c, $1.20i Others, 60c, 90c, $1.20, $1.50. Tax Incl. Members may receive one free ticket by presenting Weekly Ticket No. 2 at the Box Office on or after Friday, October 26. SATURDAY AITERNOON, NOVEMBER 3, AT 3 O'CLOCK PROGRAM CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17 Caucasian Songs and Dances (for 'cello alone) Y oury Bilstin Georgian Song and Dance Hymn to th e Setting Sun in Daghestan Weddjng Festivities in Daghestan Mr. Bilstin Carnival des Animaux Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Long-eared Person Hens and Coc ks Cuckoo in the Wood Wild As es Aviary Tortoises Pianists The Elephant Fossils Kangaroos The Swan The Aquarium Finale L'AI MANT Mr . lames, conducting MEMBER'S TICKET ADMITS MEMBER AND ONE GUEST "THE MAGNET" \JOmpounded and Cop:vrtchted II)' Cot¥, IDa. ID U.S.A. 20 21 INSURANCE ••• with Responsibility BROOii.LYN "The adjusbnent of insuran ce claims is an important f unc It is never too early tion of a reliable Insurance Broker. 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Sibelius El Molinero Mr. Greco yuest Artists: Alfred 7o1irovitch , Pianist, and Carina Orasto, Soprano Bolero {Ravel) Entire Company !22uafity Februat·y 26 in fur INSTITUTE MEMBERS: $1.20, $1.80, $2.40, $3. Septuor in E~ flat, Op. 20 ...... Beethoven fashions OTHERS : $1.80, $2.40, $3, $3.60. Tax Included. Pied Piper of Hamelin ...... Arthur Bergh Superlatively beo·u· Trio in A major ...... Georg Schumann tiful furs at sound· investment prices Guest 7-lorn , Artists: Jv(arcel Lannoye, 'JrenciJ .. . that's the trodi· - and 7-!elen Schiff, Narrator lion at NAMM'S Fur Solon . Do let us show you the new March 19 1946 styles, lash· Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 .. Brahms ioned of carefully MAURICE SCHWARTZ worked pelts that Aria from " Don Giovanni" ...... Mozart anrwunces his 26th Season of the promise sea son of· . Oct;t in F major, Op. 166 ...... Schubert ter season of wear. (Form erly P1 World's Largest Island Greenland, a country which played such an important role in this nation's war strategy, will be the su bject of Commander Donald B. Mac Millan's talk when he opens the Institute's travel and adventure series on Monday evening, Octo ber 22. Since this great explorer's trip to the North Pole with Admiral Peary in 1909, he has made twenty-five expeditions to the Arctic, twelve of which were solely to Greenland for exploration and research. Dispelling the belief that Greenland is a vast land of snow and bitter cold, he shows motion pictures in natural color illustrating the island's resources, people, towns Frnnlllin Stndios and industry, and describes its great importance Com. Donald B. MacMillan in the air-age. Members will be pleased to learn that the Native ceremonies and dances of our neighbors weekly travel lectures have become so popular to the so uth are recorded in all their glamour. that, this year, all of the meetings will be held Mr. Lanks has lived in South America and has in the Opera House in order to accommodate made frequent expeditions into its remote cor the larger audiences. ners to gather facts about the little-known tribes and their quaint customs. Recently, he com An Adventurous Journey pleted the first overland trip from the northern A thrilling half-year's trip by automobile most tip of the Alaskan Highway to the Horn around the rim of South America to the Straits of South America. of Magellan will be dramatically depicted by Herbert C. Lanks in his lecture, " Pan American Undersea Exploratigns Highway," Monday evening, October 29. Color To be busily occupied several hundred feet movies illustrate the route through stretches of under the water examining the rigging of a jungle and desert, into charming cities, across sunken ship is all in a day's work to Max Gene the Andes nine times, touching all but one of Noh!, internationally famous diver and deep sea the South American countries and their capitals. and powder are successfully coordinated to flatter explorer, who will return to the Institute on Monday evening, November 5, to tell the latest nature not to defeat her. Whether you are fair chapter of the story of his conquest of the ocean floor. Here is a young man who strolls the or dark, whether you are blonde, brunette bottoms of the Atlantic and the Pacific as calmly and nonchalantly as you might walk down or titian, there is a Monteil Make-Up Eastern Parkway. By means of thrilling under that brings added beauty to water motion pictures in natural color, Mr. Nohl takes his audience on history-making expedi your skin, to your hair. tions; on hazardous dives among the tangled ruins of shipwrecks, to the ocean floor to gather sponges, and through waters infested with sharks and barracuda. His amazing exploits have been made possible by his invention of revolutionary diving suits, diving bells, underwater motion pic ture equipment, and sharK rifles-added to a native endowment of quiet fearlessness. 26 Undersea Gardens 27 OTHER LECTURES Saint Francis to revive the life of the spirit, and Ralph Hancock, Latin American editor of the a Giordano Bruno to free the minds of men. Encyclopedia .Americana, who will discuss his Dr. Griggs will return in the Spring to pre area of specialty. " Postwar Pan Americanism" The Quest for Values sent a companion group of three lectures on will be his topic on Friday evening, October 26. The writings of great creative and speculative "Moral Leaders 'in the Modern World/' and a His subsequent lectures will be " Latin Ameri minds of the past will be interpreted in the light special address to conclude the entire Thursday can Potentials/' on November 2, and " Indus· of present-day problems by distinguished teach evening series on "The Quest for Values." trialization in Latin America" on November 9. ers in twenty-four lectures of this season's The stress of war, with our need for strategic "Quest for Values" series. The Institute Formn raw materials and effective diplomatic coopera Institute members who eagerly await his talks With our returning servicemen and their tion from Latin America, placed a strain on will be delighted to know that Dr. Edward H ow problems dominating the national scene today, hemispheric relations. Now that we are return ard Griggs will again deliver the first three lec it is fitting that the Institute Forum should open ing to more normal conditions, Mr. Hancock tures of the series. A winning teacher and· the new season with a discussion of that timely believes the Good Neighbor Policy faces a ge nial scholar1 Dr. Griggs is one of the most subject. It is especially opportune that the series of important adjustments. eloquent speakers on the American platform. speaker himself has had a thorough first-hand Mr. Hancock has a unique background of ex In lectures covering a broad field as varied as 1 experience with the war on many fronts and perience in inter-American affairs. For many literature and the study of man can invite he 1 with the men who fought it. years he was a resident news correspondent cov consistently puts his audience on terms of in Millions of words have been wr.itten and ering Latin America, and later served as the timacy with the great minds of the past. spoken about the kind of world to which our Senior Economic Analyst in the Caribbean Area Encompassing the general subject "Moral 1 servicemen would return, but peace, as cher for the Board of Economic Warfare. A pho Louis Untermeyer Leaders in the Older World/' Dr. Griggs will ished as it is1 came too abruptly for most of tographer of numerous educational film s on discuss "Marcus Aurelius and the Sunset of these words to be transmitted into action. Few Latin America, Mr. Hancock is also author of The American Cultural Scene Ancient Rome" on Thursday evening, October men are as qualified as William Bradford Huie, several textbooks and hundreds of newspaper What are the new trends in music, architec 18 ; "Saint Francis of Assisi and the Spiritual former naval lieutenant and well known war cor and magazine articles about our neighbors to ture, drama, painting, and literature? What Awakening of the Middle Age" on October 25; respondent, to voice the desires of the veteran the south. will be the effect of the war on An}erican and "Giordano Bruno, the Martyr of Science" in terms of the action needed. thought and creativity? Does American music, on November 1. He links the contributions in Mr. Huie wi ll appear at the Institute on · The Poet Speaks like American speech, express our way of life? thought of these three leaders of great cultural Wednesday evening, October 31 to discuss 1 Alfred Kreymborg, noted poet, playwright, Are we evolving a native art di stinct from Eu epochs with the resulting heritage for us today. "The Veterans Return-to What?" During the and critic, will be the first of three contempo rope and independent of European influences? Dr. Griggs will express the need for a Marcus war his duties took him from the Aleutians to rary American poets to appear in the new series, Are we entering a Golden Age of American Aurelius to lift us to intellectual serenity, a Saipan, from the Norn1andy beachhead to Ger "The Poet Speaks." He will discuss the major culture? many. His articles on the men with whom he factors that have influenced hi s writing and will Louis Untermeyer will return to the Insti tute lived and fought have been published in leading read selections from his works. His lecture to take up these stimulating questions in two national magazines. Among the widely-read will be held on Friday evening, October 19. lectures on "The American Cultural Scene." books Mr. Huie has written are 'Jhe 'Jight for · Mr. Kreymborg is president of the Poetry So Mr. Untermeyer1 in his past appearances before .Air Porver, a dramatic account of " Billy" Mit ciety of America and has long been a leader of Institute audiences, has consistently won their chell's struggle to prepare America for the air the poetry movement in thi s country. One of praise for his illuminating discussion and his age, Ca n Do, the best-selling story of his ad our most versatile men of letters, he is author of human, witty style of speaking. He will give ventures with the Seabees, and the successful more than fifteen books of poetry, plays and his first lecture on Sunday aftemoon, October novel, 711ud On 'Jhe Stars. prose, and editor of several poetry anthologies, 28. The second will be held later in the season, most notable of which is hi s Lyric .America, during the month of February. Our Global Neighbors ( 1630-194 1 ). His newest book, Selected Poems, With more than thirty volumes of original Vital background information on Latin Amer a collection of hi s writings from 1912 to 1944, verse, translations, essays, travel sketches, and ica , the Soviet Union, the Far East and the' Brit has just been released by Dutton. Recently Mr. criticism to his credit, Mr. Untenneyer is one ish Commonwealth of Nations will be featured Kreymborg was called upon oy the Library of of our most accomplished interpreters of culture in a new series of sixteen lectures. Called "Our Congress to make eight fifteen-minute recordings and its meaning for our time. A keen observer Global Neighbors," the series will present au of readings from his works. He has made a of the American scene, he will in his two lec thoritative speakers on the history, social struc similar album of readings, which will be issued tures make an analysis of the factors that gave ture and economics of these areas in order to by Asch Records this month, and his book for rise to the new ways in the American arts. Bit clarify some of the questions that face our own children, 'Junnybone .Alley, has been set to the by bit1 from the trends of today, he will indi country in its postwar international program. music of Elie Siegmeister and recorded for dis cate how the mosaic of our future culture is William Bradford Huie The series will lead off with three lectures by tribution this fall. being constructed. 28 29 • ENTERTAINMENT SCIENCE NOTES Astronomy Meeting TI1 e Institute's Department of Astronomy has planned another full program of activities for Natural History Meetings Cinderella local astronomers. There will be seven round The season's program for young people would As it has done for many seasons past, the In table meetings conducted by members of the stitute's Department of Natural History will not be off to a real start without an early ap Department{ and twenty-four roof observatory again conduct a seri es of fi eld trips for members. pearance of the Sue Hastings Marionettes. They sessions under the direction of Wil li am Henry, These trips to nearby poi nts of zoological and Chairman of the Department. begin their eleventh year at the In stitute on Sat botanical interest will take place on consecutive A discussion of the activities and findings of urday, October 27, with a morning and after Saturday afternoons during t he fall. members during recent months will make up the noon performance of "Cinderella," a fairytale The first outing, October 20, will be led by firs t round table, "Reports on Summer Observa beloved by children and grown-ups alike. John C. Pallister. The group will visit Prince's tions," on Thursday evening, October 18. At From the opening scene, whi ch shows Cinder Bay, Staten Island, to study autumn life in the the first roof observatory meeting, Saturday, ella sweeping ashes whil e her ugly sisters prepare woods. On October 27, Mrs. Tessida Swinges October 20, the group wi ll study "The M oon for the Grand Ball, right up to the end, where will conduct a group to Prospect Park Zoo and Double Stars." 1l1e second meeting, Tues " they Jive happily ever after," the charmingly where the afternoon will be devoted to t he study day evening, October 23, wi ll be devoted to costumed tiny actors of the puppet· theater hold of mammals. Mrs. Swinges will report on the " Vega and Double Stars in Lyra." The third their audience spellbound. Cinderella's fairy Emma Knox life and habits of the animals in their native meeting, Saturday evening, November 3, will godmother was made to order for ingenious pup surroundings; the keeper of the an imals at the consider the "Northern Cross and the Ring Catskill s, encounters strange little people and peteers. Just as her magic knew no bounds, so Zoo wi ll discuss their life under domesticated Nebula in Lyra." even stranger events, and fina ll y fa ll s into hi s on the stage a miniature pumpkin changes into conditions. A study of forest and landscape celebrated sleep. We all know his astonishment a coach, mice are transformed into coachmen, plants will be undertaken on ovember 3, when when he awakened twenty years later. MRS. MARY HOLTZOFF and our heroine's ragged dress becomes a beau Henry Hicks conducts a trip to Westbury, Long tiful gown. The resplendent ball, its gay danc Island. The trip will include a walk through As this issue is prepared for press word is The Lady and a Queen 1 ers, and Cinderella's hasty departure, are full of the countryside and a visit to the Hicks Nur received of the death of Mrs. Mary H oltzoff, suspense. The desperate search of Prince Emma Knox, mono-dramatist, w ho is featured sery to discuss seed collection, seed growin g, an Institute member of long standing and an Charming is both humorous and sad; the final in the afternoon program for adul ts on Wednes and plant propagation. Further detail s are given active member of the Department of Natural joy of our hero and heroine is portrayed in dra day, October 24, will portray the li fe and times in the W EEK LY TICKETS. History. A specialist in the study of botany, matic style. " Cinderella" will be followed by of a great lady who once held the destiny of the The Department of Natural History has also Mrs. H oltzoff was always happy to share her a lively puppet revue. British Empire in the palm of her hand: " Queen arranged fourteen round table ·meetings to be interests with others1 often at the expense of Repeating a practice of la st season, the lnsti Victoria," ruler of Great Britain and Ireland held on Wednesday evenings during the season. her health. She leaves a host of friends who tute will offer two performances of each play by and Empress of India. Dressed in authentic The first of these{ with Grace A . Petersen as feel a sense of close personal bereavement. the Sue Hastings Marionettes. In addition to the and beautiful costumes of the period, Miss Kn ox chairman1 will meet on October 24 to consider usual afternoon show, there w ill be one in the wi ll present four charming and intimate scenes the subject, " Heredity vs. Environment." The morning at 11 o'clock, an hour that should prove in Victoria's life: "The Woman Proposes," exchange of views over whether an organism to be very convenient. "Mornin g Glory," "The First Born," and can be changed by environment, and to what " Happy and G lorious." degree, is expected to present a lively discuss ion. Rip Van Winkle To the role of Victoria, Emma Knox brings Plant Hormones Rip Van Winkle, deli ghtful and legendary the keen dramatic feeling, personal charm , and character of Washington Irving's famous story, compelling technique which has won for her a Dr. George S. Avery, Jr., Director of the wi ll play hi s way through fa bulous adventures host of admirers throughout the country. She Brooklyn Botani c Garden, will di scuss " Plant when the Clare Tree Major Children's Theater calls upon the subtle magic of suggestion and Hormones" in the first atural History lecture Company presents its first performance of the imagination to bui ld a backdrop of atmosphere of the season, Tuesday evening1 October 30. season on Saturday afternoon, ovember 3. for her distinctive talents. From a rich dramatic Dr. Avery is a special authority on thi s subject This popular story of the loveable ne'er-do-well experience that has included playwriting, direct and is noted throughout the botanical world for who slept for twenty years atop one of t he ing, and radio work1 as well as several seasons hi s pi oneer research work on plant life. He is Catskill Mountains has been a favorite ever since on the professonal stage, Emma Knox has cre co-author of yrowth J-fot·11·tot1es in Plants, a it was first told. Easy-going Rip, who much ated a dramatic program that distinguishes her standard work in this important and compara prefers hunting and fi shing to digging in the as an actress of discernment and ability. Her tively new field. His lecture, which will be il fi elds, is driven from hi s home by Mrs. Van characterization of " Queen Victoria" wi ll be lustrated with lantern slides, will provide a wel come opportunity for Institute members to meet Winkle, who feels he should spend hi s hours in a preceded by a group of li ght and varied sketches Lo1tts liulllc in modern dress. the new Director of the Garden. more productive manner. He wanders into the Dr. George S. Avery1 ]r. 30 31 Mississippi in the early days of the steamboat. dars, hemlocks, larches, spruces, firs, etc., while BRO'OKLYN ltllJSEllltl BOTANIC GARDEN Traffic on the river flourished during the sixty to the eastward of the lake, across the walk, the years following the appearance of the first river Yew Family is well represented. Gingkos are Life on the Mississippi steamboat and reached its zenith in fine, luxury The Systematic Section planted along the brook west of the Pine Family. "double-deckers." "The steamboats were finer Most of the large and long-established cities Pines, Yews, and Gingko represent the yynmo An exhibition of prints entitled "Life on the than anything on shore. Compared with the of Europe have their botanic gardens, or had sperms (literally, plants with naked seeds), Mississippi" opens in the Print Galleries of the superior dwelling houses and first-class hotels in before World War II laid waste many treasures which began to appear some time in the Paleo Brooklyn Museum on October 5 and is current the Valley, they were indescribably magnificent of art and science. Although these gardens dif zoic Era, perhaps 200 to 250 millions of years through December 10. Composed mainly of ... " as recounted so ably by Mark Twain in fer much among themselves in terrain, history ago. It should be stated that the plants of today American litl1ographs issued from 1840 through his own book, £ife on the :Mississippi. and general policy, their main feature, as far as are not necessarily the same kinds that existed the 1870's, it forms a colorful and graphic the layman is concerned, has always been an in bygone ages, but they are directly descended record of expansion westward into the heart of In addition to prints depicting our Civil War, outdoor display of living specimens of plants from these ancient stocks. America. Much of the flavor, the zest, and the the exhibition also contains a very large group arranged in some sort of order or system. Coup-· Proceeding southward from Boulder Hill we rugged life of the "new country" is caught and of prints of famous steamboat races. Keen com led with this is usually an herbarium or col follow the general trend of evolution of the held in panoramic review through the prints petition and the necessity for speedier transpor lection of dried plants housed in an adjacent flowering plants beginning with the Buttercup issued by Currier and lves and other lithographic tation gave the races a very real significance. building. and Magnolia Families, representing the early houses and through the writings of Mark Twain. 1 hose boats which were the fastest in the races So in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden the prin .Angio perms, and pass through such families as Of some sixty-five prints be ing shown, the ma were always in greater demand for travel and cipal feature of the grounds that represents the the Cress, Poppy, Rose (including the Apple jority belong to the Preston Player Collection for the carrying of various commodities. In old-fashioned, stereotyped botanic garden is the and Plum Subfamilies to the eastward, and also of Knox College Library, Galesburg, Illinois, 1838 the Post Office Department offered a prize Systematic Section, an arrangement of specimen the Cherry Subfamily), the Horse-chestnut, and are supplemented by others from the Old of five hundred dollars to the boat that could living plants of the world. These specimen Linden, Mallow, Ginseng, Parsley, and Dog Print Shop and Kennedy and Company. make the trip from New Orleans up to St. Louis plants are grouped according to relationships, in wood Families, to the Heath Family-to name As explorers, travelers, pioneers, and settlers, in Jess than six days. The prize was won by families and orders. In the Brooklyn Garden only a few-not in a straight line, for there the English, French, Spanish and Indian met on the "Diana," which made the trip in a scant the · sequence of these groups depends upon the have been many blind alleys in plant evolution, the broad stretches of the Mississippi. Life forty-five minutes under six days. However, relative time of their appearance on the earth; but in a general direction southward. From the along its shores was romantically portrayed by racing as a sport was of special interest to every in other words, it is an evolutionary sequence, Heath Family, which tem1inates at "Azalea Currier and Ives, who surpassed all their com pilot and boat owner, and the winner of the and with some modifications is generally known Bank," the general direction is northward, but petitors in covering the important news events gilded buck homs, or record holder's trophy, was held in high esteem. Prints showing the among botanists as the "Engler System." now on the west side of the grounds, near Flat of the period. Plantations, roustabouts loading "Natchez," the "Robert E. Lee," the " Diana," The Systematic Section begins with the mosses bush Avenue, we pass through such families as cotton, famous steamboat races, moonlight rides, the "A. Shotwell," and many other famous in the " moss dell" near the south shore of the the Olive and Honeysuckle to the terminus of high tide and low tide, all the turbulent life of L. Japanese Garden lake (although one might the Systematic Section, where the Composite the " new frontier" were carefully sketched by steamboats are among this group. Reflecting the life of the rich Mississippi Val stretch a point and claim that the algae iii the Family or Sunflower group will be found, oppo their artists, among whom was the ambitious and lake represent the lowest order of plants, the site the Rock Garden. skillful Fanny Palmer. ley of some seventy-five years ago, the litho The critical Mrs. Trollope, Audubon, Mark graphs and engravings shown in this exhibition 'Jballopbytes). On Boulder Hill, and the area l11e Composites (daisies, sunflowers, chrysan Twain, Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, and retain much of the romance, the flavor, and the to the westward as far as the brook, are growing themums, asters, goldenrods, and the like) , rep "The Arkansas Traveler" contributed many sturdy pioneering spirit of America in the mid representatives of the Pine Family-pines, ce- resent nature's latest style of flowers. stories and descriptions of their travels on the nineteenth century. View in Pine Family Group at the " Loading Cotton" Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Left to Currier and lves Lithograph right: 1. Pinus Strobus, White Pine of the Eastern U. S. 2. Pinus ex 1870 celsa, Himalayan Pine, native of In dia. 3. Cryptomeria japonica, Japa nese Cedar, an important timber tree of Japan. In the left hand lower cor ner is a branch of Pinus Thunbergii, the Japanese Black Pine. (Photo by Louis Buhle.) 32 33 PUBLIC LIBRARY THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES "Atoms" of Our Language FOUNDED, 18'24. REI NCORPORATED, 1890 ======'JIJ e following ar ticle is drawn fr o!l'l a radio EDWARD BLUM, Chairman of the Board. nddress deli vered recenlly by Dr. Jrlill on Jam es ADRJAN VAN INDEREN, President. C. 'JergiA SO II , Chief Librarian of IIJe Brookly11 Pub lic Library: THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Brooklyn Academy of Music- 30 Lafayette Avenue- STerling 3-6700 There has been much awed discussion since I the atomic bomb fell on Japan, of atoms and BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN their vast potentialities for evil and good. Has . 1000 Washington Avenue - MAin 2-4433 it occurred to you that we have long possessed some similarly small objects which in combina THE BROOKLYN MUSEUMS tion display all the force of the exploding atom Central Museum - Easteru Parkway - NEvins 8-5000 ~ut wi tl~out its destructiveness ? Lacking thes~ Children's Museum - Brooklyn Avenue and Park Place - PResident 4-2900 l1ttle thmgs, the atom in all likelihood never would have been harnessed to man's uses . nor the airplane fa shi oned to drop the atomic bomb. 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THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION offers its members free admission to more than 300 events : lectures, concerts, motion pictures, young people's pro pare an English printed page with one from One of our neighbors, Frederic Goudy who has grams, field trips, etc. Also reduced rates for special courses and programs. China. The Chinese invented paper, a long time just celebrated his 80th birthday a~d is still ago, but they had no knowledge of the Phoeni practicing his art, has turned out more than one DoNALD G. C. INCLA!R, Chairman , Govern ing Committee. J u u u BLOOM, Director. cian letters. TI1ey expressed thought by a com hundred distinctive type designs. plicated sort of picture writing. This naturally Nor has mechanical genius withheld its hand. became simplified as time went on, but it has THE BOTANIC GARDEN offers its members free admission to "Flower Days," Here in Brooklyn is a factory which flrst per always been incapable of the combinations of Spring Inspection, field •trips, and most classes of instruction. Also: guide fected mechanical fingers to place our twenty services, privileges of library and herbarium, free publications, advice on all our twenty-six little letters. A learned Chinese six little men in marshalled order so that they aspects of gardening, distribution of surplus plant material, and visiting mem might write eloquently by such a medium but bership privilege in the botanic gardens and museums of other cities. reproducing what he wrote in a form such as our might march away with their messages in vast PHILIP A . BENSON, Chairman , Got•ernin g Committee. DR. GEORGES. AVERY, JR., Director. daily newspaper would be a much more . and speedy battalions. Locally, we take the formidable matter. Mergenthaler Linotype Company as a part of our commercial world, but it is more than that : Recently I vi sited the print shop of a friend THE MUSEUM offers its member private views of exhibitions, admission to who specializes in foreign languages. He ir is a disseminator of knowledge, a force for the Museum's courses, phonograph records and prints from its lending library, showed me the cases required to hold the char better living around the world. and docent services. Also: certain M u eum publications free of charge. and acters necessary for composition in the Chinese Without our alphabet, however, the linotype other Museum publications at reduced prices. language. In place of the small stand needed would not have come into beingi so we come SIDNEY W. DAVID ON, Chairman, Governing Committee. to hold a font of English type so compactly that back again to the gift of the Phoenicians. Now MRs . LAURANCE P. RoBERT , Director. ALBERT . HE RI CKS EN, Assistant Director. the typesetter need not move out of his tracks that the war is over, I hope the United Nations as he works, the Chinese cases were yards and will appoint a commission to set up a suitable yards in length and held an uncountable number marker on the eastern shore of the Mediter THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC i owned and operated by the of characters. Brooklyn lnstih1te. Its Opera House, Music Hall, and Ballroom may he rented ranean, where Phoenicia was, in recognition of for concerts, plays, lectures, school ceremonies, dances, and other events. We have been fortunate, too, in that our de th@- great help the twenty-six little soldiers ren WILLIAM T. HUNTER, Chairman. Building Committee. HERBERT T. 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