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Soon Liechtenstein's 65 square miles of territory were converted into one gigantic bog, tops of houses and church spires, with an occasional oasis of high ground, lifting above the sea of mud. Frantic peasants drove their cattle as best they could toward the high mounds of land; boatmen plied their oars with aching muscles as they ferried women and children from their submerged houses to those still standing above the flood. Many people were forced to spend two days on their house tops...
...Harvardians will include in their program "Russian Fantasy" an arrangement of Tschaikowsky's Fourth Symphony, and the Song of the Volga Boatmen; Grieg's, "Peer Gynt Suite", Tschaikowsky's "June," chaminade's "Scarf Dance" and, "Fantasie Orientale" which includes Rinsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" and Caesar Cni's "Orientale...
...Vocal Club received much praise for its rendition of its numbers of the Gay Nineties, "Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl" and "Old King Wenceslas." The Mandolin Club scored with is song of the "The Volga Boatmen...
...program will be almost the same as the one given at Salem on November 26, opening with the martial strains of the "Second Regiment March of Connecticut", rendered by the Banjo Club, The Mandolin Club offers among other numbers Delibes' "Intermezzo from Naila" and "The Song of the Volga Boatmen." The Vocal Club will render the famous "Drinking Song" from the "Student Prince", "In an Old-Fashioned Town", and a medley of songs of the gay nineties...
...other the producers will see to it that it is a success, if they have to subsidize the metropolitan press for a twelvemonth. The curtain rises on a romantic, and dimly lighted scene, the camp of the Riffian chieftain, the baffling Red Shadow. The Song of the Volga Boatmen contributes its mite as the tribesmen open the play with the Riding song of the Riffs, a rare gem in basso profundo, with excellent time and almost no tune, which will defy college men all over the country who sing tenor and aspire to bass...