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...symphonic training.* Women who play wind instruments are additionally handicapped by the fact that they look funny blowing. Until this year the Chicago Woman's Symphony, conducted by Ebba Sundstrom, a dentist's wife, had men play the difficult winds. But in Manhattan last week there was stout Edith Swan to play the trombone, Amy Ryder, 60 years old and deaf, to lead the French horns. They did not worry about appearing ridiculous any more than Ethel Leginska did when she decided to become a conductor...
...APES OF GOD-Wyndham Lewis- McBride ($3). Though rumored to be aimed at the Sitwells (Edith. Osbert, Sacheverellj, Wyndham Lewis' Gargantuan satire carries poisoned arrows enough to riddle all the bohemians and neo-bohemians on earth. With a scalpel of wit in one hand, a cleaver of words in the other, the author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length...
Divorced & Remarried. Mrs. Edith Gould Wainwright, 30, daughter of the late George Jay Gould; from Carroll Livingston Wainwright, 33, Manhattan socialite who was committed by his brothers to Bloomingdale Hospital last year, was later adjudged to be "mentally competent"; in Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty. Mrs. Wainwright immediately married Sir Hector Murray Macneal, 53, Scottish shipowner...
Tryouts for the three men's parts will be held in the Rogers Building, the new headquarters of the Dramatic Club, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Miss Edith M. Smaill, of the department of speech at Wellesley, and F. C. Parker '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking at Harvard, will make the selections. The parts to be filled are those of Napoleon, "the man of Destiny"; Guisseppe, a landlord; and a sub-lieutenant, aide to Napoleon. The character of Napoleon is too well known to need description. Guiseppe is a swarthy, vivacious, shrewdly, cheerful, black-curled, bullet-headed...
...same mistake that Germany made when she executed Edith Cavell, a British magistrate in Bombay made last week. Outside a Bombay store a small, impertinent child shrilly shouted to purchasers to buy nothing but Indian goods. Brandishing their long lathis, policemen swooped down, arrested the child as a picketer and hauled him off to court where a short tempered magistrate sentenced him to four years imprisonment. The child's name was Krishna Kant. He was nine years old. Snapped the magistrate...