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Shortly before Recorder Mapleson died, in 1937, a deaf but diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam got permission to go through the Mapleson records. There, Collector Seltsam found not only peeping vocal relics of such golden-agers as Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich, but 16 records of the otherwise unrecorded* Jean de Reszke. Thrilled Phonographer Seltsam started raising money to re-record Mapleson's de Reszke samples on modern discs...
...lawyers are Grenville Clark '03, and Charles Allerton Coolidge '17. Roger Irving Lee '02, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene at Harvard from 1919 to 1924, is the physician. William Henry Claflin '15, a broker and antiquarian, is the present Treasurer. Senior Fellow and big-time business man is Henry Lee Shattuck '01. Henry James '99, author of "Charles W. Eliot", Pulitzer Prize biography in 1930, completes the roll...
Impersonator of Father Moody will be York Village's present Congregational pastor, the Rev. Walter H. Millinger. Earnest, antiquarian Parson Millinger held his first Father Moody Sunday in 1936 after running across his predecessor's fiery sermon. The idea has spread; now all Maine is digging up old sermons, redelivering them with period fixings. But even Pastor Millinger has yet to re-enact one custom of Father Moody's time: those who did not spend Sunday in church spent Monday in the stocks...
...Antiquarian Jitterbug...
...deeply appreciated your references to myself but I fear you ranked me too high as No. 1 antiquarian jitterbug. There are several authorities in the U. S. who would readily compete for that proud place. By the way all biologists have big ears...