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...valedictory statement, La Galli-Curci favors the individual concert over the opera presentation as being more in tune with a mechanical age. By this, she seems to suggest that the radio and the "talkie" have been the factors in upsetting bel canto. Opera, she asserts, is too heavy-footed in comparison with them. The world has lost interest...
Carol, "Les Anges dans Nos Campagnes" French Air Carol, "Jesu, Fili Virgine" Holst Carol, "Canto de Aguinaldo" (Song of the Christmas Presents) Andalusian Carol arranged by Erickson Carol, "Silent Night...
Journalistic Homers have sung for years the deeds of the Eastern trunk lines in their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these...
Achilles in this canto of the railroad epic is played by Arthur Curtiss James of the Western Pacific. Bearded, eye-glassed, urbane, he is known for different things to different people. To Manhattan socialites he is the host of a huge granite mansion on Park Avenue at 69th Street. To yachtsmen, he is the able and enthusiastic skipper of the famed square-rigged yacht, Aloha. To many a rich old lady he is vice president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central...
Andover's score came as the direct result of two forward passes. Having been stopped dead on the one yard line in the opening period, the schoolboys early in the second canto, worked back to the 35-yard stripe. Here two passes, Brown to Kimball and Keesling to Broaca coupled with a seven yard run by the latter put the pigskin across the goal. Harvard worked some pretty laterals in the fourth period but could not get beyond the 22-yard stripe...