By
Alma Gluck
World Famous Concert and Opera Soprano
The contemporary scene is such a bewildering panorama of interests that only a person of enormous capacity for reading, with unlimited time on his hands, can hope to be thoroughly well informed. I like to persue my chief interests at first hand, by seeing and living with them, but this leaves little time for reading about other things happening in the world. I depend on the Readers Digest for that. I have come to rely on it as a check on the state of my general information. I always read the table of contents eagerly, sure of finding something in the nature of a delightful surprise.
Impatience is a marked characteristic of mine. Impatience with wordiness often prevents mefrom reading books and articles whose subjects really interest me. I can not wade through the hundreds of words about a matter that could be expressed in a well chosen few. The Readers Digest is a god-send for this reason. I have been reading it ever since it first appeared. And I an greatful for the intelligent succinctness with which the articles are made compact and quickly available.
Naturally I am gratified to see its increasing attention to music, which is becoming more and more the concern of the general public. That it has so well anticipated this concern is but another evidence of an alertness both stimulating and reassuring. Indeed the best feature of the Readers Digest is to be found in the generous dimension of its interests.
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