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...Premier was getting his money, the National Bank of Belgium still carried Paul van Zeeland's 600,000 Belgian franc salary on its books. It was thereupon revealed that at least part of this sum had been quietly pocketed by the bank's Governor Louis Franck and the other directors. Nobody was greatly exercised when Premier van Zeeland belatedly admitted that he had accepted bonuses in 1934 and 1935 when he had left active politics and temporarily returned to the bank. But Governor Louis Franck did not have so acceptable an explanation for his part in the affair...
...bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck's D Minor Symphony without a mishap. Listeners thought the oscillion lacked color, was a little twangier in tone, otherwise indistinguishable from the woodwind it replaced...
...organ recital, Professor Davison, assisted by Evangeline Merritt, soprano, will present "Prelude," Vlerne; "Air," Bandel; "Air do Lia," Debussy; "Pastorale," Franck; "Ich wandte mich," and "Wenn ich mit Menschen and mit ngelszungen redete," Brahms; "Patron das macht der Wind," Rach; "Sur un theme Breton," Rpoparts; and "Austrian Hymn," Paine. This will be the last public organ recital of the current academic year...
...audience grew dreamy over Sasha's singing, sensuous delivery of the Franck sonata. More cold-blooded listeners felt that here Culbertson lacked clarity, tended to lose himself in lyric effects. As always he did best with Bach, made every variation in the Chaconne marvelously clear and incisive. Sensing that Sasha Culbertson was nervous over his second debut, critics deferred judgment. Friends of Violinist Culbertson were not surprised at his nervousness. Sasha has always been as retiring as his bridge- playing brother, Ely Culbertson, is bold. Though both Culbertsons were born in Eastern Europe, they are Sons of the American...
...Tuesday night in the Memorial Church at 8:15, an organ recital will be given by Mr. E. Power Biggs. He will play works of Liszt, Franck, Schumann, and Reubke...