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Hibbard James '45 will play the Lord Chancellor; Jay J. Hughes '45 will play Strephon; Miss Helena Fenn, Radcliffe '47, will play Phyllis; William Sullivan '45, will play Mountararat; Frederick Pratt '45, will play Tolloller; and Barr Peterson '47, will play Willis...
Died. Georges Barrère, 67, famed flutist (TIME, Jan. 3); after a stroke; in Kingston, N.Y. Alumnus of the orchestra of Paris' Folies Bergères, Flutist Barrère spent nearly 40 years in the U.S., playing in Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, touring with the Barrere Little Symphony, and teaching a whole generation of younger U.S. flutists. He affected an imperial beard, fawn-colored trousers, a Prince Albert and an assortment of exotic flutes made of silver, gold and platinum, valued as high as $3,000 apiece...
...moderns seriously when they made their first U.S. reconnaissance in force at the 1913 Armory Show. In 1919, with Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, she asked A. Conger Goodyear to head the Museum's original organizing committee. As director they appointed Alfred H. Barr Jr.-who retired last January (his successor has not been appointed). At its opening show (November 1929) the hand counters rang up the first 50,000 of what have since become some 3,400,000 admissions. When "Lillie" Bliss died about a year later she left the bulk...
...Indianian needed to be told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...
...nobody knows how many amateurs. Their profusion is due in part to the fact that the flute is the easiest of all wind instruments to play, and in part to the untiring evangelism of the Flute Club's founder and president, 67-year-old Georges Barrère. Flutist Barrère, one of the few surviving devotees of the gaiter, the Prince Albert and the imperial beard, was brought to the U.S. by Walter Damrosch in 1905. Son of a Bordeaux grocer and alumnus of Paris' Folies-Bergère orchestra, he barnstormed every state...