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...hundred soldiers were sent to the town of Canudos in November, 1896, to pacify Conselheiro's restless followers. They were routed. So was a second force of 543 men two months later. In February 1897, an expedition under Colonel Moreira Cesar set out with 1,300 men, 15,000,000 cartridges, 70 rounds of cannon shot. Moreira Cesar was tough, relentless, an epileptic. The objective was Canudos, a mountain village of 5,200 huts and two churches whose population had been swollen by crowds of Conselheiro's followers. It was 60 miles away over mountain roads that...
...Moreira Cesar's artillery opened up, the church bell began ringing, "summoning the faithful to battle." As his troops swept into the trap, he was wounded in the abdomen. "It is nothing," he said. Another bullet struck him. By nightfall the army was panic-stricken...
Opening the concert at 8 o'clock with Kabelevsky's Overture to "Coles Breugnon," Kostelanetz will lead the orchestra in "Frontiers," by Creston, and in Stravinsky's Suite from the ballet "L'Oiseau de Feu." After an intermission the program will conclude with Cesar Franck's "Symphony in D Minor...
...After a break for announcement of the occasion, the orchestra should swing into the complete choral finale. The rest of the program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique); Russia (Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky); the U.S. (America the Beautiful, the old European psalm-tune Old Hundred, Home Sweet Home and Ballad for Americans...
Coney Island (Betty Grable, George Montgomery, Cesar Romero; TIME, June...