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...Shenandoah Valley, where snow fell last fortnight, was bright last week with drifts of apple blossoms. Governor Harry Flood Byrd, himself a big cider, applesauce and vinegar producer, flew by blimp from Richmond to Winchester to crown the queen of the valley's blossom festival, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke. It was a lyric occasion. Visitors waxed ecstatic over the scenery, the verdure, the marching schoolchildren. Newsgatherers tasted real Virginia applejack. None had a more gladsome time than his suave and swarthy excellency, Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian Minister to the U. S., who, with Mme. Samy, had been...
Here's Howe! When spring comes to Manhattan, the theatre season dies. Its swan song is heard, drifting slyly into the noisy streets, from playhouses wherein musical shows now blossom brightly in the dark. This one was written by famed Roger Wolfe Kahn who again displays his competence to write songs which, though they may be faintly derivative, are gay and engaging. The action is well cared for by Allen Kearns; he is required to represent a character whose name, as may be guessed, is an Indian greeting and who loses his love and gains her again with nonchalant...
Grace La Rue, Blossom Seeley, Evelyn Law, Bobby Watson, Grace Brinkley, dancing and singing, backed by a large and dexterous chorus...
...Reading Period would come in May, and in May Radcliffe would come again to Harvard. All was well; though reading assignment and thesis pluck at the heart of the courageous, yet even when the trial was hottest they would gain sweet respite. The Brattle Hall stage would blossom with lovely faces and form, and the Dramatic Club would ward off disaster even at that faltering midpoint of the Reading Period...
...European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short a time as has elapsed since the settlement of America. Aesthetic minds are attained only after material effort stagnates; preeminence in culture implies that the young vigor of a nation has gone to seed, and a more mature blossom has taken its place. The South, and Greenville especially, seems to be overflowing with this young vigor, and when it turns to fields of art, its materialism becomes painfully obvious. Trousers on the Apollo Belvedere is enough to make even the unaesthetic North smile...