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Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company found itself last week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked...
...Davison '06 and G. W. Woodworth '24 will conduct the concert. Dr. Davison will lead in a group of three songs by Handel, performed for the first time with orchestra in the United States; six "Liebeslieder" and "Neue Liebeslieder", by Brahms, to be sung by a special mixed chorus of 50; and "Cantata Number 50", for double chorus and orchestra, by Bach. Woodworth will direct "Antiphon Number Five from Five Mystical Songs", by Vaughan Williams, and the "Hymn of Jesus", composed by Gustav Holst. The latter work is being given its first public performance in Boston...
...annual Christmas Service in Appleton Cnapel will be held on Thursday evening, December 19, and on Friday December 20, in both the afternoon and evening. Under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison, Organist and Choir-Master, a program of Christmas music will be sung by the Choir of Appleton Chapel and the Choral Society of Radcliffe College...
...Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison, in charge of aeronautics, reported that the Army Air Corps' "most pressing question" was promotion of junior officers. Army and reserve pilots flew 263,381 aircraft hours last year, covered 26,300,000 miles, had 60 men killed...
...Teagle's maternal grandfather, Morris Clark, was first partner of John Davison Rockefeller, in the days before Mr. Rockefeller began the formation of Standard Oil. His father, John Teagle, was an early oilman. It was to drive a tank car in his father's firm (Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle) that young Walter Teagle in 1900 refused an instructorship at Cornell University, from which he had just been graduated. Then the Republic Oil Company absorbed Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle and Walter Teagle, at 23, became Republic's vice president. In 1903 he went to Standard of New Jersey, as member of its export...