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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with an anglicized version of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, the Cincinnati Symphony ended its first season's attempt at presenting grand opera as a part of its regular schedule. Four Wagner operas had been given in all. Singers had been imported for principal roles. A group of local choristers had gladly sung for nothing. In Die Meistersinger last week the Eva was one of the comeliest young women who has ever made an operatic debut. She was Inez Gorman...
Feeling that the Harvard-Yale Fencing fracas of last Saturday would die a natural death, William J. Bingham '16, director of Physical Education and Athletics, last night refused to make any statement concerning the possible consequences of the affair...
Wild ducks suffer from bad marksmen as well as from good ones. Shot that falls into the water sinks to the bottom where ducks mistake it for roughage such as gravel or sand. They eat it, die a month or so later of paralysis caused by lead poisoning...
Because they believe that one-third as many ducks die from being poisoned as from being shot by bullets, Professors Robert Gladding Green and Ralph Dowdell of the University of Minnesota set out to save ducks by devising a healthy bullet. Last week they had perfected one. Their bullet: lead magnesium alloy, which dissolves less than 48 hours after it is eaten, before the lead causes anything worse than indigestion...
...Boston Symphony is giving the sixth concert in its Cambridge series. The program, composed of numbers previously played in Boston, consists of Haydn's Symphony in E flat no. 99, Faure's "Elegie" for Cello and Orchestra, Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole", and the preludes "Lohengrin," "Tristan und Isolde," and "Die Meistersinger". The second half should certainly satisfy Wagner devotees; the first bears especial tribute the Dr. Koussevitzky's skill in program-making...