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...caned them smartly. As a madman, King Ludwig demanded and obtained, among other whims: 1) lifesize clockwork peacocks made to open their wings composed of thousands of bits of colored glass; 2) a sumptuous barge drawn by mechanical swans in which he sailed about as Lohengrin; 3) an artificial grotto simulating that at Capri...
There follow in rapid succession the Vale of Tempe, the summit of Parnassus, scaling the Acropolis at midnight, wooing the Maidens of the Porch by Attic moonlight, swimming the Hellespont, climbing Stromboli and Vesuvius, trying to swim from whirling Charybdis to rocky Scylla, singing "Funiculi, Funicula" in the Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing...
There naval officials descended into the gruesome, barnacled grotto of the dead, and as they fumbled through the rusty, sea-fouled compartments, scenes of the death struggles were revealed. Men had stuck to their posts. Inside the gash where the Rome had bitten, pinned between the bent steel plates and the engineroom bulkhead, was the body of a seaman. One arm was stretched out in an effort to grasp the lever which would have closed an emergency valve and perhaps have saved the lives of some of his fellows...
March MilitaireSaint-Saens Overture to "Light Cavalry" Suppe Serenade, "Trastullo" Langendoen Fantasia, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg Morning Mood--In the Troll King's Grotto Ave Maria from "Othello" Verdi Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin (Piano Solo: Jesus Sanroma) Ballet from "The Cid" Massenet Castillane Andalouse Aragonaise Aubade Printaniere Lacombe American Fantasy Herbert
...Pops concert which begins at 8.15 tonight, is as follows: Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa Overture to "Morning, Noon, and Night" Suppe Lotus Land Scott Fantasla from "I Pagliacci" Leoncavallo Suite "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. A. Morning Mood b. Anitra's Dance c. In the Troll King's Grotto Music Box Liadov Deep River Burleigh--Jacchia Ride of the Valkyries Wagner The Student Vagabond Jimmie Selection, "The Vagabond King" Friml Waltz, "Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovasky