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Recently a group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...
...woodwinds, had cajoled, scolded, flattered the rest into efficient adoration. To thank Mayor Taggart for the free bed & board, Stokowski led his youths in a sidewalk serenade in front of the mayor's house, playing the stuffing out of John Philip Sousa's Manhattan Beach, El Capitan and Semper fidelis, Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here...
...Capitan," March Sousa *Overture to "Euryanthe" Weber *The Music Box Liadov *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *"Hejre Kati", Hungarian Czardas Hubay *Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Seans Violin Solo: Julius Theodorowicz *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *Selection, "Maytime" Romberg *"Night and Day" Porter *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms...
...years, the Jorgensens moved to Yosemite Valley, built and furnished a home and studio entirely with their own hands, lived there for eleven years while bearded Chris Jorgensen, a capable, conservative, never exciting painter, covered acres of canvas with views of Yosemite Falls, the Half Dome, El Capitan and the rest of the valley's wonders. The Jorgensens became fast friends of the valley's best-known inhabitant, bearded Naturalist John Muir. In 1903 when Theodore Roosevelt visited the valley he outraged the inhabitants by turning down an elaborate reception to eat flap jacks over a campfire with...
UNDERGRADUATE LIFE for the students in the Deutsche Studentenshoin in Prague, the Bohemian capitan is little different from the life led by American undergraduates--at least that is what the photos shown here seem to prove. Above is a student's room, one of the many now famous for the drawings on the walls. A typical study room is shown at right, above. And the photo at the right is of a typical reading room where are kept...