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...rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal, the better the instrument's tone...
This tribute to the Realmleader, tossed off three months ago by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in a potboiling piece for Vincent Astor's Today, went unnoticed by German diplomats in the U. S. last August. When it potboiled up again in London's Strand Magazine (which had bought it from Mr. Churchill, to whom the British rights were released on Sept. 18 by Today), the fat of cherubic "Winnie" was in the fire last week. Reason: Statesman Churchill in the interval has made his peace with British Prime Minister Baldwin and Germans, like everyone else, understood that...
...public-minded citizens in 1,700 U. S. cities. Special panels of experts are maintained for technical trade disputes. In Manhattan the AAA has nearly 1,500 in its panels including names like Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Lawyer James M. Beck, Cineman Jesse Lasky, Funnyman Eddie Cantor, Mrs. Vincent Astor. The arbitrators serve free, are called two or three times a year, may be excused if busy...
...brocade riza. Assisted by the conductor of his choir, General Sergey Savitzky, he chanted prayers before an improvised altar on which ten candles illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian musicians, waiters, bus boys, cooks and, in white chef's garb, Spiridon Ignatovich who used to cook for Tsar Nicholas II. Each kissed the priest's crucifix, each received on the forehead...
...Director. When the Metropolitan Opera was organized 52 years ago, William Astor got himself Box No. 7 on the left wing of the Golden Horseshoe. Son John Jacob and Grandson Vincent successively inherited it. Last week handsome Mrs. Vincent Astor, who has done good work as a money-raiser for the Philharmonic-Symphony, was elected a Metropolitan director, the third woman on the board.* Manager Johnson: "We have won a great victory...