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...program follows: Triumph March, Beethoven Fingal's Cave, Mendelssohn Concerto in D minor, Brahms For violin and orchestra Solotat, Miss Ippolito Unfinished Symphony, Shubert Allegro Moderato, Andante con moto...
...means an absorbing flow of mucus. Wet feet provoke an interesting condition wherein the brain becomes remote from the sensual world, an aching entity in which the weariest efforts of the will can not arouse a thought. And it is suggested that if make them the principal subject of con-efforts of the will can not arouse a versation, these attempts of the weather to excite interest with excess and variations, can be discouraged...
...these slogans help the Democrats unhorse the Republicans in 1928? The slogan committee of the Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington, D. C.), hoped so. They were announced last week as the best of 800 slogans the committee obtained in its nationwide slogan-motto-jingle-limerick-rhyme con-contest (TIME, Sept. 26). The committee paid $100, $50 and $25 for the above prizewinners, as promised. The Mrs. Hubbard who won first prize is First Vice-President of the Woman's National Democratic Club. Two of the other slogans submitted were issued for publication. One from Washington said...
Cleveland spends high praise on its ten-year-old orchestra, on Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff who has been with the orchestra since its birth. Con- ductor Sokoloff evidently does not hold the Cleveland musical public in the same high regard. Often he is vexed by it-for coming late, for coughing, for leaving early. Last week he rebuked it publicly for general lack of interest. A chorus of 30 Glenville High School girls had assisted in a concert, just finished Debussy's Blessed Damosel and taken their applause when Conductor Sokoloff stepped up. Said he: "If this were a baseball...
Golden Dawn. Spry oldsters and some persons of middle age will remember the name of Oscar Hammer- stein. It was he who precipitated the Manhattan opera war; he who con- ducted the famed Music Hall at 42d St. & Broadway; he who made varied and spectacular sorties beyond the beaten path of the new world's amusements. Last week son Arthur Hammerstein unveiled a vast memorial to him in the shape of an exceedingly Gothic theatre containing everything from an elevating orchestra pit to an organ, before a vast audience containing memorable citizens from James John Walker, Mayor, to Nazimova...