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From Vienna. In Manhattan's big Carnegie Hall-a bit too big for their frail, clear trebles and altos-last week 20 Wiener Sängerknaben, aged 10 to 12, began a U. S. tour which will take them to the west coast and back. The Vienna Singing Boys, famed 439-year-old choir from Austria's old imperial palace give U. S. audiences Dixie and the Star-Spangled Banner in English, chaste church music, operettas in which they rouge and dress up as laundresses, guardsmen, 18th Century gentlemen and ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Choirs | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Mayor. A dapper, quick-eyed gentleman in an easy chair at the City Hall-a Manhattanite with sporting instincts not unlike Rothstein's except that his gambling is in votes and publicity-could stand it no longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had lost caste when a gambler's murderers were brought to justice slowly during his administration.* So Mayor James John Walker called for his Police Commissioner and gave him a certain number of days to get "action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Room 349 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...TREASURE OF THE BUCOLEON- Arthur D. Howden-Smith-Brentano ($2.00). A cipher hidden in Elizabethan verse-secret stairs in an old English manor hall-a fabulous treasure secreted bv Byzantine emperors in the very belly of Constantinople-a gang of international cutthroats who are constantly sandbagging the legitimate treasure-seekers-gypsy brigands versus Turkish assassins - a spitfire gypsy lass equally ready with kiss or knife- these are some of the ingredients of as rattlingly energetic a yarn of adventure as any in some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Books: Sep. 10, 1923 | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...PRESCOTT HALL-A few suites for next year; study, two bed-rooms and bath-room with outside window; gymnasium and shower in basement; prices reduced. Apply to janitor or to Ellis and Melledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 5/17/1898 | See Source »

ELLIS AND MELLEDGE.- Real Estate and Insurance. Every student should have insurance on his furniture, clothes, and books; $2.00 and upwards. Prescott Hall-A few suites for next year, prices reduced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 3/30/1898 | See Source »

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