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When Lucie Bigelow Rosen, wife of the New York banker, Walter T. Rosen '94, faces a small, compact box in the courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum tonight at 8.30 o'clock, her audience will hear strains of Debussy and Bach apparently materializing from thin...
...shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little money and a lot of skill a player can so jiggle the dials that the claws will fish out of the candy a lady's compact or a silver ash tray...
...Lost Lady"--Barbarn Stanwyck and Frank Morgan make a compact based on what they term "honesty" after he ha retrieved her lost soul. Then love comes unexpectedly and almost conquers. If you like Miss Stanwyck posturing in a variety of costumes before a variety of rich hangings and motor cars, there you are. But she remains legally chaste--likewise Miss Crawford,--which is somewhat of a disappointment...
...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...
...tuned to the oboe's A, while Brahmins found their places. All stood when Koussevitzky entered, made his calm & studied bow. When the first piece was over he did an unaccustomed thing. He grinned. To open the Boston Symphony's 54th season Koussevitzky had chosen a rich, compact passacaglia which he had written himself. Bostonians had been curious. Koussevitzky, they knew, was the world's greatest bull-fiddler. He could write sympathetically for the big bass, as Kreisler has written for the violin. For the Symphony's 50th anniversary celebration he contributed an overture. But Boston...