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Ambitious little Deems Taylor, composer of The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson, received last week an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from ambitious little Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. at its 55th anniversary celebration. Graduate of New York University (1906), and an able writer of light verse, Composer Taylor told the students: "All of an individual's life depends upon the answer to one question. ... Do you want to make a dollar? There are two answers...
Manager Johnson, henchman of the Chicago opera's President Samuel Insull, said that Mary Garden was severing her 20 years' connection with the Chicago Opera by mutual agreement. Chicagoans had guessed that she was through a fortnight ago when no photograph of her appeared with the other pictures advertising next year's performances. Gossip forthwith spread to the effect that she had been ousted because Mrs. Insull does not like her, has long urged President Insull to end her contract. A year ago, the report went out, Mary Garden said she would not renew her contract...
...hair, tip-tilted nose have begun to "date." A Vassar girl, married (to Eugen Jan Boissevain), a Pulitzer Prize winner (1922), she has sought poetry and ensued it in many a book. Four years ago she wrote the libretto to Deems Taylor's opera, The King's Henchman, got as much praise as he did. Other books: Renascence and Other Poems, Figs from Thistles, Aria da Capo, The Buck in the Snow...
...Eugen Jan Boissevain (Edna St. Vincent Millay), poetess (Renascence and Other Poems, The King's Henchman, The Buck in the Snow), left "Steepletop," her home at Austerlitz, N. Y., to have some fun in Manhattan. She described her fun to the press: "Staying out until seven o'clock in the morning. It's just a round of 'pub-crawling.' Don't you like that word? I wish I had invented...
...education. The Vagabond,peering into the dim future sees a new Harvard. It has become so thoroughly Oxfordized that the students have "scouts", and television has become the accepted means of education. He sees a room in Lowell House, a students figure reclining on a couch, a henchman hovering over an instrument in the corner, ready to do the master's slightest bidding. He hears a bored voice, "I say. Hawkins, turn off that beastly Hocking man and lets have something hot from Willie Langer...