Word: halled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Founders of new religions are apt to announce that they have been sent by God, that their teaching is divinely inspired, themselves the definitive prophet. Not so Religionist Charles Francis Potter. Last week he hired a hall (Steinway) in Manhattan, packed it (capacity 244), turned away hundreds. Making no audible claims to prophetic succession, he announced "Humanism" and handed out prospectuses thereof...
...these creatures, played with frightening rancor by Jean Dixon, scourges her husband with wisecracks because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares at him in still, awful malignance which will amuse anyone who enjoys sadistic spectacles...
...private Union showing of the prints will continue for one week, preceding a public exhibition in the Fogg Museum, which will open October 28 and last two weeks. The views not included in the Union and Fogg exhibitions will be on file at University Hall B for all interested persons...
...Stradivarius Quartet of New York City will give a concert in Paine Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock, through the courtesy of Mrs. Edward C. Moore. This organization, which was formed by Alfred Pochon, a member of the Flonzaley Quartet which recently disbanded, includes in addition to Mr. Pochon as second violinist, Nicolas Moldavan, viola, Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin, and Gerald Warburg, violoncello...
Four Stradivarius instruments have been placed at the disposal of this organization, hence the name of the Quartet. The concert in Paine Hall will be the Quartet's first eastern appearance followed by a series of 40 to be given mainly in New York during the winter...