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Died. James E. Butler, 77, famed 12-year-old "Drummer boy of Shiloh," who answered President Lincoln's first call for volunteers in 1861; at Franklin...
...relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with one of those astonishing paradoxes by which a brilliant man is enabled to write love letters which in their idiotic banality would have disgraced Daddy Browning, to conduct his indiscretions in a manner of an unfaithful cloak-and-suit drummer, and to make these mediocrities important by virtue of the astounding music into which the chemistry of genius transformed them...
Significance. The Coolidge Administration has taken a definitely "bone-dry" stand on Prohibition. If, there is to be any Wet parade, Democrats must organize it, the most available drummer-boy being Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland are ardent foes of the Anti-Saloon League dogma, but are not so ready to exorcise it with tom-toms...
...been wafted upon the breezes of the autumn air and all that sort of thing, may I suggest that there is in my heart a profound respect for Princeton. Princeton is the only college, not to mention university, in this country which supports a drum with such a drummer as appeared between the halves and the goal posts last Saturday. Before Gilbert Seldes and the other higher aesthetes get a chance I wish to have it definitely stated that that drummer is a great artist. Like a moth ball in a derby he was the only bright spot...
...scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient seat; after a premonitory groan, his brass assaults the tune. . . . The piccolo players, the drummer and the flute stroll in, smiling and chuckling; one of them is trying to get a pack of cards into his waistcoat pocket. Obviously a game of penny ante has delayed them. . . . Mr. Stokowski stops while the last of his audience parade down the aisle. . . . Haydn's "Farewell." The orchestra has played...