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...Wagner's Die Meistersinger, and was capped by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with the 150-voice Manhattan Chorus. Said Soprano Ella Lee, awed by the thunderous reception: "It's as if Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony just a few weeks ago." Funds for the concerts were contrib uted by the Philharmonic ($70,000) and the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. ($50,000). The city donated a $110,000 "trailerized concert shell," a 36-ton, 60-ft. by 40-ft. structure mounted on four trailer trucks. Unfolding like a massive Chinese puzzle, the shell's white fiberglass panels...
William Masselos contrib performance that masters the continual rhythmic and that has a keen sense f land's phrases and dynam his hands the work become vibrant, then poetic, and insight like his its britt be lost...
...addition to this generous act of the Imperial family, three Jap- anese associations, organized after the earthquake, engaged to contrib- ute $50,000 in cash and materials for the construction of the school and a foreign community centre. A committee of Americans and British accepted the courteous offer...
Christefer Morley, in his column in the New York "Evening Post", comments upon a circular which was sent to him by a contrib, advertising the wares of the Public Speakers Society of Harrisburg, puhl, Mr. Morley does not mention the competition which the society offers to public speaking course in colleges, but we must prognosticate upon the threat which arises from the fact that the Society has prepared 220 speeches for all occasions. Where is any need for taking a course which (supposedly) teaches one to think on one's feet, when all that is necessary is memorizing...
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