Show Muriel Draper Provides Picture of Florence I Florence of prewar days provides the scenes for Music at MIdnIght Muriel luriel Draper and her singer singer-hus- band Paul were hosts to many celebrities of the era and the two music mad Americans achieved an enviable popularity in artistic circles Across the tue sparkling pages of Music at MidnIght move such figures as Chaliapin Henry James John Sargent Lady Cunard Cun- Cun ard Norman Douglas Duse and Casals The Edith Grove residence in London housed melody and dialogue of superlative quality S Mis Draper writes effortlessly and and gives astonishingly vivid pictures pie pie- tures ot of the characters who after the lapse of years still are sharply etched in her memory ot of those glamorous days of 1909 We recommend her bier account of her meeting with Norman Douglas as simply devastating During the course of Music at Midnight Mrs Draper declares that she could write a book each on Douglas and Henry James We suggest re- re that she make good such sucha a promise The results might not be carefully polished studies but they most certainly would be diverting di- di |