Word: apollos
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...program for the concert is as follows: Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Halleujah Vulpius Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres The Glee Club Am Sontag Morgen Immer leiser wiremein Schlumme Von wiger liebe Stornellatrice Respighi Caro, Caro el mio Bambin Buarnieri Vissi d' Arte Puccini Miss Giannini Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Folk Songs; The Turtle Dove Williams Swansea Town Hoist Madrigal Monteverdi O Isis and Isiris from "The Magic Mozart Flute" Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan The Glee Club Four Italian Folk Songs Miss Giannini The Hundered Pipers Scottish Folk Songs The Nightingale Chaikovsky How Beautiful Are the Feet...
...memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary of P. B. K.'s united chapters, presented the building to William & Mary College and all soon swarmed through the three-arched brick edifice, admired the fireproof chamber for P. B. K. memorabilia (a replica of the famed Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, where P. B. K. was founded 150 years ago); the guest rooms, the auditorium, the pictures of the founders of the country's scholastic hierarchy. There was a festive meal with more speakers of distinction: Dr. John H. Finley of Manhattan, President Edwin A. Alderman...
...inability to find himself in complicated mazes of the white world; and Mr. Robeson's personality. His organ-like voice croons, booms in husky, mellow tones filled with all the languor and ebullience of his naive race. In the third act he appears stripped to the buff-an Apollo in black marble, a sight for any sculptor. Across the footlights prejudice turns to admiration. Black Boy, with the debased morale of the U. S. Negro, can see no beauty in his own people. Even passion withers when his sweetheart is revealed a yellow girl. But Paul Robeson, personally, shines...
...Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb-Playwright Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School for Scandal; George III and Queen Charlotte reading their favorite divines under the lindens...
...oracle, Colonel Thompson was a worthy successor of Apollo. His replies had a frank and sonorous ring, implied everything and committed themselves to nothing...