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Among the modern artists the acquisition of a curious lithograph entitled "The Comedy of Death" by the eccentric Rudolphe Bresdin, a French draughtsman, is of interest. Bresdin, a bohemian of bohemians, has been pictured by Champlioury as living like and Indian savage in Montmartre, alternately starving and sharing new carrots with his pet rabbic, Petiot. His work reflects his own bizarre personality and is vividly imaginative, yet drawn with microscopic detail...
...tour-?" "Vy not?" Ernestine Schumann Hemk had answered. Should she go back to Europe, to Gratz where she had given her first formal concert at the age of fifteen? Should she go back to the little Austrian town where she grew up, the homely, hard-working child of a Bohemian soldier and an Italian mother? To be sure she had earned her first money there playing dance tunes on a tinkly piano in an old restaurant where the peasants gathered on holidays. Ninety-six cents, she had made in just one evening. That, and the seven and a half cents...
...scholarship for "excellence in all studies," but she managed to play tennis three times a week, summer and winter. She specialized in art courses; "Pop" Fuller had stimulated her interest in drawing; he owned some good pictures and took her every year to the exhibition of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco. In 1924 she won the U. S. national title again, but lost in the Wimbledon finals to Kathleen McKane...
...local tissue) stop their growth at a primitive, atavistic stage. Such primitive cells may lie dormant while the blood is able to counteract the virus. But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer. (Propounded two years ago by Dr. Emilian O. Houda, Bohemian physician of Tacoma, Wash. Dr. Houda, in the current issue of Cancer indignantly asserts that Gye and Barnard of London, who have recently set forth a somewhat similar theory, have not given him due recognition for his prior work...
...program for the first concert is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Miserere Allegri Chorus of Bacchanties Gouned Coronation Scene, from Boris Godonov Moussorgsky Gute Nacht German Folk Song Reaper's Song Bohemian Folk Song Then round about the starry throne, from Sampson Handel