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...keys of the instrument as if sowing in neat rows the seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...
EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING- Dorothy Aldis-Minion, Balch ($2). Since Stevenson wrote A Child's Garden of Verses many writers have sought to clothe their poetry in the gay muslin of his technique. Since A. A. Milne wrote When We Were Very Young, many, many writers have dressed their fountain pens in bloomers. Yet conscious imitation is infrequent, nor is Mrs. Aldis an exception to the rule. Her poems have most of the graces of their unconscious models. Per-haps the children for whom she speaks are a little too much the product of Al kindergartens and hygienic nurseries...
...College (Claremont, Calif.) was heroically completed in bed and from a wheel chair while the sculptor was suffering from influenza and heart trouble. His casket was covered with apple and peach blossoms, instead of stiff "floral pieces." A memorial service was held in Bridges Hall of Music where the fountain, "Spanish Music," perhaps the sculptor's best known work, gives inspiration...
...start of the twelfth however, Sharkey darted from his corner, shot his right fist to McTigue's jaw with spectacular results. A fountain of blood spurted from the Irishman's mouth continued to spurt. Both fighters were soon smeared from head to heel with Celtic gore. Spectators, bloodthirsty of nature, were visibly relieved when Referee McPartland stopped the fight, giving Sharkey credit for a technical knockout...
...White House to be in line for the President and Mrs. Coolidge at 11. Then they went to the lavish Pan-American Building to have a diplomatic buffet breakfast with the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. As they smoked Mr. Kellogg's cigarets and watched the Aztec fountain play, they exchanged many a felicitation. Most of Washington's bigwigs and their ladies were there-Cabinet members, ambassadors, ministers, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, Army and Navy officers...