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...remarkably fine example of the early illustrated book, a copy of "The Book of Troy" by Guido delle Colonne, printed at Augsburg with the type of Gunther Zainer, about 1478, has just been acquired by Harvard University. The only other recorded copy of the book is in the Dresden State Library...
...Parsifal performances Arturo Toscanini conducted in Bayreuth last summer, he had no notion that he would ever be invited to conduct Toscanini's New York orchestra. In his 38 years the crinkly-haired, wiry little Russian has gone far. He has conducted in Moscow. Dresden, Berlin, Sofia, Oslo. Last year he was chosen along with British Basil Cameron to succeed hulking Alfred Hertz in San Francisco. Last week it was announced that he would conduct the Philharmonic-Symphony for four weeks next winter, after Toscanini finishes the season's first eight weeks, before German Bruno Walter arrives...
Walter C. Baumgarten, Dresden, Germany, City Planning; Kenneth S. Chester, Boston, Botany; George F. Davidson, New Westminster, B. C., Canada, Classics; Sterling Dow '25, Portland, Maine, History; Merle Fainsod, St. Louis, Missouri, Government; Edward S. Gilfallan, Jr., Kalamazoo, Michigan, Chemistry; Victor M. Hamm, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, English; George W. Neff, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Architecture; Robert E. Pike, Cambridge, Romance Philology; Willard Van O. Quine, Akron, Ohio, Philosophy; Alan R. Swoozy '29, Wilton, New Hampshire, Economics; Harold E. Wethey, Port Washington, Long Island, New York, Fine Arts...
Wagner stated his terms in a letter to his American dentist, Dr. Newell S. Jenkins, who practiced for a time in Dresden: "It seems to me as if, in my hopes regarding Germany and her future, my patience would very soon be exhausted, and that I might then repent not having long ago confided the seeds of the ideas embodied in my art creations to a more fruitful and promising soil. An association would have to be formed which would offer me, upon conditions of my permanent settlement there and as an indemnity once for all for my exertions...
...ungraceful and the Wigman doctrine demanded less grace than it did muscular control carried to scientific perfection. Her cult, called tanz gymnastik, spread wholesale among housewives and factory workers who found the exercise profitable. Wigman ideas were modified and taught in the public schools. The Wigman Central Institute in Dresden was subsidized for a time by the Federal Government. Unauthorized groups have used the name of Wigman in Boston, Cleveland and Seattle but this autumn the first official U. S. Wigman School was opened in Manhattan, dedicated to "those thousands, untutored in the rich speech of the body...