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Archie is a lean, mischievous, battered six-footer named Ed Gardner, who declares : "Your true New York mug doesn't say toity-toid or erl. He's about halfway between oyster and erster." Gardner's in dignities are delivered with a kazoo-voiced good nature which keeps everybody happy, including his victims. Three writers turn out the original script, but the final version is practically all Gardner ("The boys do a rough draft and I tear it down"). The result is grade-A American foolery...
...months before, Jackson had been brought to him by a Manhattan social worker named Silvia Ageloff, whose sister was once Trotsky's secretary. Jackson, a tall, dark, bespectacled young man, was a Yugoslav by birth, had entered Mexico on a Canadian passport, spoke English with a Brooklyn accent (erl for oil and oil for earl). The police and armed secretaries who guarded Trotsky day & night let him in without question...
...program for the concert follows: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Vaughan Williams How Sweet, How Fresh S. Paxton Three Italian Folk Songs Dimmi, O Bella Tu Mi Vuoi Cantu di Caccia Harvard Glee Club Von Ewizer Liebe Brahms Sapphische Ode Brahms Lied der Braut Schumann Der Erl Konig Shubert Madame Matzenauer Jubilate Deo G. Gabrieli Plorate Flii Israel Carissimi Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence French Folk Song Arr. by Holst Harvard Glee Club Intermission Over The Steppe Gretchanioff On Wings of Dream Arensky In The Silent Night Rachmaninoff Thy Warning is Good Grieg Madame Matzenauer Shoot, False Love...
...announced last night will be as follows: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Vaughan Williams How Sweet, How Fresh S. Paxton Three Italian Folk Songs Dimmi, O Bella Tu Mi Vuoi Cantu di Caccia Harvard Glee Club Von Ewizer Liebe Brahms Sapphische Ode Brahms Lied der Braut Schumann Der Erl Konig Slhuberl Madame Matzenauer Jubilate Deo G. Gabrieli Plorate Flii Israel Carissimi Let All Mortal Fleeh Keep Silence French Folk Song Arr. by Holst Harvard Glee Club Intermission Over The Steppe Gretchaninoff On Wings of Dream Arensky In The Silent Night Rachmaninoff Thy Warning is Good. Grieg Madame Matzenauer Shoot...
...final winner, selected as the best of the first prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society of the Friends of Music. The awards, in all, total $20,000. Franz Schubert sold many of his most beautiful creations for 20c. He submitted the "Erl-King" to Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipsic publishers. They, suspicious of the MS. from Vienna, wrote to one Franz Schubert of Dresden, Royal Church composer, inquired if he had submitted the song. The answer: "With the utmost astonishment I inform you that this cantata was never composed by me. I will use every endeavor...