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...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...
Last week the cruiser Resolute plowed through many an Atlantic billow while returning toward England from South America with Edward of Wales. Only once did the propellers of the Resolute cease churning for a few hours. In order that the Prince might golf, a short stop was made at Port St. Vincent (Cape Verde Islands). Having golfed, the wanderlustful Prince again embarked...
...Walter Damrosch was born in Breslau, Silesia, came to the U. S. when he was nine. His father, also a conductor, was a friend of Liszt, Wagner, von Billow, Auer, Rubinstein; he led an orchestra in which Walter made his first public appearance-as a cymbal player. The youth was so nervous that he could not lift the cymbals. Later he played in his father's orchestra with the second violins to learn how instrument players follow the conductor's beat. Recently he owned the largest private music library in the world, presented it to the New York...
...coquetting with the idea of strengthening his dictatorship by inviting the wily old diplomatist and former Imperial Chancellor Prince von BÜlow* to accept an important position. General von Seeckt, who commands the entire Reichswehr, would be the strongest man in the directorate, which, besides von Billow, would include such men as Admiral von Vintze and the noted diplomatist von KÜhlmann, and, of course, Herr Stresemann. Thus Germany would virtually be under the same rulers as before the War, minus the Kaiser. Even Stresemann is suspected of Royalist sympathies. He later declared, however, that...
...Commercialized undergraduate activities" is--evidently the shibboleth at Cambridge, if one may believe the newspaper stories issuing from that hallowed seat of learning. With the subsidence of the agitation for "credits toward a degree for managers of athletic teams," comes another still more startling--rolling onwards like a veritable billow of materialism to engulf the helpless philanthropist shivering on the brink. In short, "students are trying with good prospects of success to have the faculty recognize the philanthropic work done by students in and about Boston as credit toward the college degree. Several hundred men are engaged each year, under...