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Herman Devries, Chicago Evening American: "The choir is the greatest of its kind in America, perhaps in the world." Frederick Ramig, Cleve- land Times: "Dr. Christiansen has the greatest vocal ensemble this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...will be mentioned and no persons who "have not lived in the territory now known as the United States." Thus foreigners like the Revolutionary Marquis de La Fayette will undoubtedly find their place in a later volume. As it is the first volume already includes such names as Astronomer Cleve land Abbe (4 columns) ; British Baron Jeffrey Amherst (3 columns) ; President Chester A. Arthur (6 columns) ; Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 columns); Actor Maurice Barrymore (2 columns). The need of such a dictionary was first voiced by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1922. Dr. Johnson was appointed editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Abbe-Barrymore | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...cinema at the Metropolitan. This movie is shaken up from one of those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest but it's no use, no one's killed, and that blights the sole hope of the spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...largest city-manager city is Cleveland. Dr. Hatton wrote Cleve land's present charter, effective since 1924. Cleveland's city man ager is William Rowland Hop kins, portly, amiable, obedient, elder brother of famed Stage Producer Arthur Hopkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curing Cities | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...like a 9-year-old child's explaining of the libretto of Boheme. Therefore, let it be recorded that guns are going off almost continually, nearly every member of the cast is kidnapped before the evening is over and that the whole difficulty is finally solved by Van Cleve of Scotland Yard. All is meant to be very funny and, for the most part, lives up to its intention. Two amazing comic detectives, Clifford Dempsey and Frank McCormack, helped the audience to its happiest moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: May 11, 1925 | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

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