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...routine thinking last night. The audience was nervous and tense, the perfect approach for hearing something real. Mr. Walter Piston of the Music Department of dear old Harvard was the first to disturb the equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them that music belong to life...
...daily wage, in order that a greater number might be employed. These men created the loveliest scene ever given in Chicago, one, we are told (not to be comparative but to give a stamp of excellence) that equalled any Beaux Arts Ball ever given in New York in the heyday of lavish prosperity...
...Independent, which suspended publication in April, was that day to be auctioned by a bankruptcy referee. Funk & Wagnalls were bidding $2,000 for it, planning only to use its subscription list for the Literary Digest. A faithful admirer of the late Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote for Outlook in its heyday, Publisher Tichenor bustled downtown to court, determined to see old Outlook kept alive. He sent the bidding skyward, got the magazine for $12,500, announced that it would resume publication in September if not earlier...
...great tragedian Sir Henry Irving. Bookseller Matthews promptly changed his vocation, got a job as call boy at the Princess Theatre. At that show-shop he was given his first part, later appearing with Ellen Terry, Sir Gerald du Maurier and other notables in the British theatre's heyday. He first went to the U. S. to act Love Among The Lions, in 1910. Since then he has lent his amiable presence to Peg O' My Heart, Bull-Dog Drummond, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The First Mrs. Fraser...
Collier's heyday lay roughly between 1905 and 1917, during the editorships of Norman Hapgood, Finley Peter Dunne and Mark Sullivan. ''Everyone'' read the magazine in those days of its rousing blasts against patent medicines, adulterated foods and adulterated politics. Those, too, were the days of the sensational libel suit brought by the late Col. William D'Alton Mann of Town Topics against the late Founder Peter F. Collier and Editor Hapgood (TIME...