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Last Sunday the Governor traveled to Philadelphia to see a fete on the Schuylkill River in which comic divers and aqua-pianists performed. He watched and grinned, then soberly declared: "Those clowns gave me my first laugh in two weeks...
...Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *"Fete-Dieu a Seville" from "Iberia" Albeniz-Arbos *"Country Gardens" Grainger *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"The Mikado," Selection Sullivan *"Londondery Air" Arranged by Grainger *The Animals' Carnival, Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Cocks and Hens Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals) Tortoises The Elephant Kangaroos Personages with long ears The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest Pianists The Swan (Solo Violoncello: J. Langendoen) Finale Pianos: Jesus Maria Sanroma Leo Litwin *"Of Thee I Sing," Selection Gershwin *To a Wild Rose MacDowell *"Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa...
...Snow caused last week to be designated a National Social Hygiene fete, got scores of meetings organized, got his old friend Dr. Wilbur (now president of the American Social Hygiene Association), and his newer friend Dr. Parran to make speeches for electrical transmission by dozens of radio stations which at last permitted discussion of the subject...
...knew that the Beaux-Arts had made history this year. It was back on Broad way after a nostalgic period at the Waldorf-Astoria. For the first time an outsider had furnished the decorations, seven rayon companies having paid heavily for the privilege of advertising the ball as a Fete de Rayon Fantastique. And into the coffers of the Beaux-Arts Institute to educate young U. S. architects would go the proceeds from 2,000 tickets sold at $10 apiece...
...unexpected guest in 1923 at a Versailles fete which raised only $5,000 to restore the French Bourbon kings' crumbling Versailles and Trianon palaces, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...