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Horatio William Parker, who belonged to one of New England's proudest families, was born in Auburndale, Mass, in 1863. Until he was 14 young Parker took little interest in music. Within two years he became a church organist in Dedham, later in Roxbury, forsook his job three years later to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. In 1886 he returned to the U. S. with a Bavarian bride, got organ posts with churches in Brooklyn, Harlem and Manhattan...
...Miss Pessl is a serious musician, hunts high & low for original scores of classics. To this end she imported last week 235 lb. of old music from Austria to Manhattan. Born Gabriella Pessl in Vienna 27 years ago, daughter of one of Europe's foremost beauticians, "Yella" Pessl forsook the cosmetic industry, studied the piano, then the organ, and finally began to explore the possibilities of the harpsichord and the clavichord. To combine her three interests of mountain climbing, skiing and music, this dark-eyed, energetic young woman carries a portable clavichord on her back on Austrian outings. This...
...Dunster acquaintance of ours, who delights in outdoor interludes, last Thursday evening forsook Dunster's costume affair for a stroll along the river's edge. In the course of their wandering he and the young lady accompanying him saw fit to fall into the Charles...
...Ball, who last year forsook Brunonia's halls to make his way in Hollywood, is back and is playing his end position as of old. Ball is the best pass-receiver on the squad and is poison down the field under punts. Babe Summerfield, lightweight veteran, or Ed Taft, the Georgia Peach, who has been making a sensational bid for starting honors since his conversion from the backfield, will hold down the other...
Balance Posnet was a horse-thief and a drunkard. Feemy Evans was a liar and a trull. Hard people, these pioneers of the good old West. Their callused souls were untouched by the points exhortations of the godly Eider panicles. Blanco Posnet and Feemy Exans were had; they forsook the straight and narrow, and travelled the primrose path to hell. They called on the devil and they sneered at God Bad Bard...