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...actors and actresses, in London. She made her first stage appearance in 1847 at the age of three, singing I'm Ninety- Five and dancing the Jockey Dance. Her last appearance was in 1906, at Drury Lane in a jubilee testimonial to Ellen; she was Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing...
...Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of music, ably conducted by Fritz Reiner, consisted of Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, Wechsler's overture As You Like It, Berlioz' Queen Mab, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. This piquantly balanced the well known against the little known...
This latter piece, "The Sea" might well bear for sub-title: "Much Ado about Nothing." Its composer, Mr. Frank Bridge, is supposedly representative of the Englishmen of the middle ground, Williams, Holst, and the rest. He has all the faults of a neutral, chief among them dullness. Brevity is not one of his virtues. As a conductor he is energetic; one would like to see (not hear) him conduct such a piece as "Ein Heldenleben...
Lampy last night looked with favor upon 12 Sophomores. Juniors, and Seniors and after much ado admitted the men into its sacred sanctum. Three men were admitted to the business departments Lement. Upham Harris '26 of Tuxedo Park, New York; John Davis Williams Morrill '26 of Dedham; and Luther Herbert Wood '25 of Greenfield. The remaining nine men were admitted to the arts department: Almon Goodwin Cooke '26 of New York City: John de Courcy '24 of Boston; George Ross Leighton of Dalton. Pennsylvania New York: Francis Boutell Turner '26 of Waltham: Talbot Wegg of Chicago, Itlinois William Dudley Livingston...
...severe test of his powers. It contained not only the usual sonata and concerto--in this case Handel's Sonata in D major and the Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 5 in A minor--but also a Chaconne of Bach and a Suite by Korngold, incidental music to "Much Ado About Nothing". This latter occupied much of the place usually given to the "nugae canores" which were therefore reduced to two, a Nocturne of Chopin and Jota by Sarasate...