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Show isinii-iirt"-'" WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Somebody was always al-ways turning in a riot call when Igor Stravinsky's "Fire Bird" and ) "Sacre du Printemps" were first .. .. played. He Wdd' Composer was Eari Spears Harvard Browder of K .the salons and Professorship musical conservatories, con-servatories, but now he's as respect- able as Nicholas Murray Butler, as he takes his post as professor of poetry po-etry at Harvard. As he writes bis fourth symphony, he enjoys full and complete academic sanction for j what were once considered the wild vagaries of his compositions. In Russia, his parents wanted him to be a lawyer. Rimsky-Korsakoff Rimsky-Korsakoff was the Pied Piper who lured him from law books to outlaw music, but who unleashed un-leashed his jcenius and himself profited as Stravinsky became j one of his most knowing and J gifted Interpreters. The frail person of Professor Stravinsky, Stra-vinsky, as he may now be called, has been shaken and racked by the j torrent of his genius, and every so often he has found it necessary to take time out In Switzerland for repairs. re-pairs. But, at 54, he still has furious vitality and is still at mid-way in his creative career. With a sharp pencil he spears snperanral sounds. Marshaling them In a symphony, he looses demons, to slay them with his baton. This demoniac dissonance disso-nance caused riots in France when his compositions were first produced. It took quite a few years for discerning critics to discover that he "planned It that way," and that there was law and order In bis music. MUCH is being written currently in comparison of the intellectual intellec-tual climate of America today with that of the immediate pre-war pe- Vet Steel Maker dg Debunks War as Grace, presi- Source of Profit Beenthlehem Steel corporation, offers something possibly worthy weighing in this balance bal-ance in his vehement repudiation of any desire for war profits. "We don't want any war to Inflate Bethlehem's business," says Mr. Grace. "We prefer peace. We are in a position to be war baby number one, as In the last war, but I can tell you that our directors and associates don't want that kind of business. I'd like to see the war stop today. to-day. Bethlehem would be better oft if it did." In contrast are the words of another an-other great industrialist, now dead, who, at a New York luncheon club in January, 1917, spoke as follows: "America has come of age. Its ships cannot be driven from the seas; its citizens will go wherever their trade or business leads them. No insolent challenge to our enterprise enter-prise will stay us in our peaceful pursuits whenever and wherever we choose to go. And I say to you that our great business establishment will remain world business for whatever what-ever profit may legitimately accrue. It is not only our right, but patriotic duty to seize opportunity to maintain main-tain the full solvency of this nation." na-tion." Mr. Grace, as president of both Bethlehem Steel and the Bethlehemfihipbuilding corporation, corpora-tion, had special charge of all production of cannon, armor plate and munitions daring the World war. Last summer, he rounded out 40 years with Bethlehem, Beth-lehem, one of the great steel-masters steel-masters ef the country. After his graduation in electrical engineering en-gineering at Lehigh university, his first Job at the company was operating an electric crane. He became general superintendent, superintend-ent, manager and a director in 1911. lie became president In ' 1913. He is 63 years old. w pOMPARISONS are dangerous, but it would appear that Walter A. Wood, wearing the colors of the American Geographical society, has Intrepid Climber romp!d away . w,th th Maps Peaks of mountain- Elias Mountains c" m bt n 8 sweepstakes. His currently reported achievement in mapping the peaks of the Elias mountain range in the Yukon territory terri-tory caps a list of hazardous assignments assign-ments of the last six years, in most of which Mrs. Wood has shared. Last March, he led several companions up a 19,000-foot peak in the Alpine jungles of the Sierra Si-erra Nevada de Santa Marta range in Colombia. With the Louis Boyd expedition to east Greenland In 1933, Mr. Wood has traversed many countries, in the last six years, on research missions for the American Geographical society. so-ciety. (Consolidated Features WNTJ Service.) |