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...sponsors progressed last week, a definite season was forecast with Composer Stringfield the choice for conductor. At the trial concert three weeks ago Mr. Stringfield's performance gave great impetus to the State-symphony idea. His music was spirited, well-knit in spite of limited rehearsal. His debonair manner is as impressive as any imported foreigner's. Otto Hermann Kahn telegraphed congratulations. North Carolinians are particularly proud of Mr. Stringfield's musical allegiance to his home soil. He has studied and conducted in the North but his composition which won a 1928 Pulitzer...
...Flesh (Paramount) is a melodrama of the Russian revolution, replete with sardonic guffaws by George Bancroft and disdainful cigaret puffings by Alan Mowbray. Bancroft is a Bolshevik sea-captain named Kylenko. Mowbray is a calm patrician. His name is Dmitri and he uses his monocle in such debonair fashion that you are sure he will be executed before the picture ends. There is also a dancing girl (Miriam Hopkins) who is Dmitri's mistress. With her he runs away from the Bolsheviks. When they | reach the seaport of Theodosia, Dmitri thinks that he is safe. He and some...
Pandora and Eve and all women will go to any lengths to get knowledge. One hundred blithe and debonair damsels from Stephens College, Missouri, are now for the first time enjoying first-hand information of this great world. Under the watchful surveillance of a dean, a nurse and a biological expert, the contingent is exploring the most tempting and interesting parts of New York. "We want the girls to have a good time, "the dean stated; while the president explained that the tour was intended to acquaint the young women with facts. The girls, under the supervision of the biological...
...Dame teams before moving west for his health), suffered from chronic asthma, result of War gassing. Though warned that crossing the mountains might kill him, he insisted on accompanying his team on its eastern trips. He was continually doubled up on the field benches with coughing fits but lighthearted, debonair in between, a constant example of courage. Long before asthma killed him he had become a tradition at St. Mary...
...Pennsylvania Historical Society in Philadelphia some 200 Biddies assembled to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the arrival in America of William Biddle, who bought a land grant on the shores of the Delaware before William Penn and his colonists arrived. Among the descendants at the celebration was debonair Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., free on a stay of execution from a jail sentence in Manhattan for refusing to answer questions in the bankruptcy case of Sonora Products Co. In the Philadelphia city directory are 132 Biddies, of whom 70 are in the local social register. Most famed living Biddies: retired...