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...With a harp on his back, James McLarnin, 135-lb. Irishman from Los Angeles, stepped through the ropes of a ring at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, and smiled genially at Lightweight Champion Samuel Mandell. A great shout went up. As is usual in Manhattan, the shout was for the wearer of the harp. Champion Mandell had been too long in retirement to win favor. He came out of his corner to win it now. On the cherubic face of Harp-wearer McLarnin he dropped jabs that soon closed an eye, caused bumps to rise and blood to trickle. Nervy...
...bright green bathrobe with a golden harp between the shoulderblades, Jimmy McLarnin, lightweight, climbed into a roped square in Madison Square Garden. After one minute and forty-seven seconds of fighting he climbed out again onto the shoulders of yelling spectators. Alone in the ring with his handlers, a curly-headed Jew, Sidney Terris ("Pride of the Ghetto"), came slowly back to consciousness, asked what had happened, and began to cry. A single short right to the jaw had finished him. McLarnin, boxing sensation of the season, is matched to fight loafing Lightweight-Champion Samuel Mandell in June...
...leading cellist of this country, will assist Dr. Davison, and will play. This is Casals only appearance this year in Boston. The program will include Brahms, Faure, and Handel, and there will also be English and Scotch folk songs: Mr. Alfred Holy, of the Symphony, will accompany with the harp in Brahms' "I Hear a Harp" and in Faure's "Requiem". The following students will render solos in the concert tomorrow evening: D. E. Terrell 2L., in "Salamaleikum"; W. C. Atwater '28, in "Agnus Dei"; C. W. Duhig '29, in "In Paradisum". Tickets for the concert may be purchased...
...republic in itself, a land where tradition makes bloody Alamo a Bunker Hill and Sam Houston a George Washington. It is now the largest state in the Union, the seat of the Democratic National Convention (at Houston). Bunker's Monthly, however, is no passing boom sheet, no harp twanging the glories of yesteryear. It is substantial in size, pleasing in appearance, broad in editorial content. New Yorkers and Californians can read it with profit...
...Edward William Bok, daughter of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, boasts as imposing a staff as money can buy. Josef Casimir Hofmann is its director and heads the piano department. Marcella Sembrich is in charge of voice; Felix Salmond, 'cello; Louis Bailly, viola and chamber music; Carlos Salzedo, harp; Arthur Rodzinski. orchestra; Reginald O. Morris, theory and composition. Last week were added to the list Violinists Leopold Auer, now 82 years old, and Efrem Zimbalist, one of his many famed pupils, and Edward Bachman. Karl Flesch, it was announced, had retired, would leave soon for a concert tour...