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...Francis Boot Prize of $100 for the best composition in concerted vocal music, was won by Adrian J. P. La Rue, second-year graduate student, of Ann Arbor, Mich...
...turn of the century his fame had spread and his Lying-in Hospital was endowed by Frederic Adrian Delano, uncle of President Roosevelt. From then on Dr. DeLee alternated between delivering socially prominent mothers at $2-3,000 a baby, poor mothers for nothing. Today Lying-in Hospital is a $2,000,000 institution connected with the University of Chicago. In its gleaming delivery rooms, 3,000 babies a year are born...
...hires the town's best criminal lawyer (Adolphe Menjou), a "simple, barefoot mouthpiece" who knows no law but does know juries, enjoys the run of her jailhouse, overcomes the headline competition of Two-Gun Gertie (Iris Adrian) by professing to be with child, stampedes the jury into freeing her. A telling point: Menjou, bearing the swooned Roxie in his arms, stands before the judge and elocutes: "The defense rests...
Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra (Aubrey Brain and the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50) and Duo No. 2 in B Flat Major for Violin and Viola (Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose; Victor; 5 sides; $3). Two out-of-the-way items, finely tooled...
Berlioz: Les Francs-Juges Overture and King Lear Overture (BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; six sides). Fine first recording of a brace of youthful, passion-tattering works...