Last week Composer Deems Taylor confirmed the rumor (TIME, Feb. 25) that his new, Metropolitan-commissioned opera would be based on Street Scene, a play by Elmer Rice, now successful on Broadway. Street Scene is about tenement life.
Goossens-Bennett
From London last week came word of another new opera in English, the libretto for which has been written by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, the music by Eugene Goossens. Their opera is called Judith and based on the apocryphal legend which has served many a poet and composer before them.* It will be performed at Covent Garden early this summer.
Glee
With lusty lungs that swelled together proudly under stiff white shirts, with good enunciation, faithful pitch and clean phrasing, Dartmouth won last week in Manhattan the 13th Inter-Collegiate Glee Club Contest. Twelve clubs competed— Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, New York University, Ohio State, Duke, the University of Oklahoma, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania State College and Wesleyan University. The last six were winners in regional competition. After Dartmouth, New York University sang best, then Ohio State. Victorious a third year in succession, the Dartmouth gleemen took back to Hanover a silver cup given-for-keeps by Manhattan's University Glee Club.
"Little Angel Papa"