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...Frenzied yawps of indignation followed on this side of the water. Defenders of American Artistic Ideals lacked no words, minced no words. A typical statement was that made by Herr Fritz Reiner, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra...
Seabright. Out of the Seabright Bowl in New Jersey, annual invitation event, popped several surprises. Nathaniel Niles of Boston upset Clarence Griffin of California and Dean Mathey of Manhattan, both "seeded" in the draw. Lucien E. Williams, droll Chicagoan, overthrew Fritz Mercur of Philadelphia, Longwood Bowl winner; Willard Crocker, Canadian Davis Cup captain; Harvey Snodgrass, of California, No. 9 in national ranking. Howard Kinsey took the finals from his fellow Californian, jaunty, courageous, diminutive William M. Johnston, No. 2 in national ranking, onetime National and World's Champion. (Johnston was not "through." He had yielded up his tonsils five...
...Maestro Fritz Busch, General Director of the Dresden Opera House, led the orchestra, which was said to have "glowed like a colorful piece of tapestry." Though the bulk of the audience was German middleclass, former Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria and General Ludendorff glittered in the Wagner box. There, too, were Hugh Walpole, English author, and Count Albert Apponyi, towering Hungarian. Parsifal, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, other masterpieces followed...
...Boston, high ranking tennis exponents competed for the Longwood Bowl, a trophy never won by second raters. Play finished, an engraver was instructed to carve, in close proximity to "W. M. Johnston," "W. T. Tilden II.," "R. N. Williams," the unfamiliar name of Fritz Mercur, of Philadelphia, undergraduate of Lehigh University. Twelve years ago the Longwood spectators blinked at the dazzling play of a tall young Californian, until then unheralded, unsung. The engraver's instructions that summer were "Maurice Mc-Laughlin...
...behind. Known abroad as One Night Between Worlds it argues the fantastic irony of death. Through a young fraulein's dream phantasmagoria, a shadowy Stranger stalks and skulks, luring her amid exotic scenes in Peking, Bagdad, Venice on one of those baffling nightmare quests for a dead lover. Fritz Lang directed; Lil Dagover performed this vehicle for Germanic supernaturalism? now absurdly childish, now weirdly beautiful...