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...letters were carried at a total cost of $4,295,967 or about two and a half cents a letter. The Post Office pilots fly in all weathers and nearly one third of the total number of 23,077 trips were made in rain, snow, hail or fog. The number of forced landings is always diminishing and the percentage of trips completed during 1922 was 95.22, while the schedule maintained during the summer months was 100% perfect...
...East has taken a slap at the West. The People's Symphony Orchestra of Boston played the other day a piece by Saint-Saens entitled Hail California. This composition was written for the world's fair of 1915, and, existing only in manuscript, has been given heretofore nowhere else than in California. Presumably the Native Sons think highly of this music written in glorification of their state. The Bostonese, however, saluted Hail California as bad music. "The feeblest and least inspired piece of music written at full maturity by any modern composer of distinction...
...program will be as follows: 1 Integer Vitae, Flemming Arise, O Ye Servants of God, Sweelinck Laudate Dominum, Converse The Harvard Glee Club 2 Aria from "Der Freischutz", Weber Miss Hempel 3 Deux Choeurs, Ropartz Tout vient a poinct qui peult attendre Les fourriers d'Este sont venus Hail, Goddess Ascending, from the "Birth of Venus", Faure (Soprano solo by Miss Hempel) Dirge for two Veterans, Holst Bedouin Song, Foete The Harvard Glee Club 4 Now Shines the Dew, Rubenstein Lullaby, Humperdinck Canari Jaloux (Swiss) Gavotte, from "Manor", Massenet Miss Hempel 5 The House Among the Trees, Ballantine Folk Songs...
...himself into madness transvaluing all the moral values, some nimbled-witted George Creel will reduce his works to a cheap credo for footpads. Does a serious-minded Bernard Shaw spend fifty years writing serious plays for the cultured leisure classes of Western Europe, half the standpatters in the world hail him as the greatest buffoon of the century...
...public reaction to Hail and Farewell is not hard to analyze. The public has been reacting to it identically-under the name of Ca- mille-for a good many years. And its mode of expression has been consistently lachrymal and always will be, as long as Camille continues to renounce her happiness and persists in giving up her charming ghost at the critical moment...