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...constituted, Sunday Schools are a religious liability. So wrote Mrs. Margueritte Harmon Bro, mother of four, lecturer, onetime Disciples of Christ missionary, last December in the first of three Christian Century articles. The Sunday School, said she, has fallen short of its aims as follows...
...they don't want no colored people in this insurance and will live forever., when I come in off the Road she put on her coat and hat & run out say father Divine tell her to make me take care of her and live like sister & Bro. she claim that he & Marcus Garvey is working together that he is a west Indian, although the government Disposed of Garvey he come with a different line, such as holding a meeting in Newark, charging $1 per head for the bus ride, and the religious boat rides...
...President while he was in office. Last week as sole proprietor of a famed 131-year-old business she acquired distinction for business ideals. When the present Widow Wilson married Norman Gait in 1896 she married the scion of an established institution. The jewelry firm of Gait & Bro. was founded in Alexandria, Va. in 1802. In 1825 it moved to Pennsylvania Avenue in the Capital and began a century-long career as purveyor of jewels by appointment to the most majestic Washington society. Into the Gait store the great ladies of U. S. history were wont to drop and carry...
...this autumn to open the symphony season in San Francisco's new War Memorial Opera House, to win $25 from the beating California gave Stanford at football. Then he hurried to Manhattan where he scored the quick success that San Franciscans had prophesied for him. Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) gets dynamic effects by constantly fluttering his left hand, tossing his black head, whipping the air nervously with his baton. Considerable excitement was aroused at his Manhattan debut fortnight ago when he played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, of which San Francisco is tired but which Manhattan seldom hears...
When Issai Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) sat worshipfully listening to one of the Parsifal performances Arturo Toscanini conducted in Bayreuth last summer, he had no notion that he would ever be invited to conduct Toscanini's New York orchestra. In his 38 years the crinkly-haired, wiry little Russian has gone far. He has conducted in Moscow. Dresden, Berlin, Sofia, Oslo. Last year he was chosen along with British Basil Cameron to succeed hulking Alfred Hertz in San Francisco. Last week it was announced that he would conduct the Philharmonic-Symphony for four weeks next winter, after Toscanini...