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...plushy, streamlined, $1,300,000 Kleinhans Music Hall built by the late Edward L. Kleinhans, clothing storeman, and PWA. (Buffalo also dedicated a $2,700,000 Memorial Auditorium, finest in the land.) In Manhattan's mellow Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonic-Symphony also launched its 99th season of concerts. This last event produced the loudest crash. For Manhattan's Herald Tribune produced a notable new critic: witty, chubby-cheeked, ex-expatriate Virgil Thomson, composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, cinemusic for The Plow That Broke the Plains, The River), onetime writer on music for Vanity Fair and the Boston...
...Boston last week the toastmaster of the 99th Annual Unitarian Festival Dinner rose to introduce an honored guest. "There are two things one should see on a trip West," he declared, "the Grand Canyon and Dr. Reinhardt." That was not the only compliment paid to Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt in Boston last week. She was also elected Moderator at the General Conference of U. S. Unitarians, to succeed famed Penologist Sanford Bates. At 63, tall, big-boned, deep-voiced, Dr. Reinhardt thus became the first woman moderator of a large U. S. church...
Died. Brigadier General Aaron Simon Daggett, 100, oldest U. S. Army officer; of heart disease; in West Roxbury, Mass. He fought in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Uprising; on his 99th birthday was decorated by the War Department...
Birthday. Brigadier General Aaron Simon Daggett, U. S. A. retired, 100, oldest man in the Army roll, veteran of the Civil War, Indian wars, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion; in West Roxbury, Mass. On his 98th birthday the House of Representatives congratulated him. On his 99th birthday he received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. On his 100th birthday President Roosevelt wrote to congratulate him "personally as well as officially...
Actually, events were shaping themselves like the opening moves of a new chess game. This must shortly be played when a new Chamber of Deputies is elected. To sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun last week Premier Laval handed the 99th Cabinet resignation under the Third Republic, the eleventh since the present Chamber was elected in 1932. He refused M. le President's urgent request that he attempt to form a new Cabinet. Obviously his best opening gambit was to facilitate the immediate formation of a Radical Socialist Cabinet and hope that it would, as in 1924 and 1925, make...