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CHARLES CASSIL REYNARD Girard, Ohio...
...Sweet Adeline" (1903). Harry Armstrong wrote the music in Somerville, Mass., when he and three other Somerville boys were annoying the townsfolk by singing quartets on the gaslit street corners. In New York some years later Armstrong found a lyricist in Dick Girard who chose Adeline to rhyme with pine. "Sweet Adeline" had its best sales during Prohibition. Harry Armstrong now runs an entertainment booking bureau in Manhattan. Dick Girard clerks in the New York General Post Office...
...with President Roosevelt as "an effort to make some propaganda between us," adding with a twinkle "President Roosevelt submitted me to a kind of religious propaganda, and I in my turn tried to persuade him of the soundness of certain principles in the will of a famous American, Stephen Girard, who thought it best to exclude all ecclesiastical activities from the college which he founded in Philadelphia. Although we hardly succeeded in convincing one another, I fully enjoyed the President's way of discussing things, and I still feel myself under the spell of his charm...
Bethlehem this spring entrusted its festival to the leadership of Bruce Anderson Carey, a bespectacled, broad-shouldered Canadian of 57 who teaches at Girard College in Philadelphia, trains and conducts the Mendelssohn Glee Club so well that Conductor Leopold Stokowski frequently engages it to sing difficult choral works with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like blond-mopped Stokowski, Bruce Carey conducted last week without a baton, bringing out the Mass's mighty effects with direct, compelling gestures of his two bare hands. During intermission Festival directors met to discuss ways & means of perpetuating Fred Wolle's idea, to keep Bethlehem...
...entered the War, Publisher Julius A. Wayland of the Appeal committed suicide. Emanuel Julius succeeded him, changed the name of the paper to The National Appeal, endorsed the War, lost most of his remaining Socialist following. The Appeal, appealing to no group, faded out. But Publisher Julius remained in Girard, married Marcet Haldeman, daughter of a local bank president, changed his name to Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. To keep his presses turning he issued twelve little 5? books, classics of Socialist literature. Those were to be the nucleus of his famed...