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...symphony orchestras are mostly silent in summer and little Wag ner is played then (except on high-class recorded programs like WQXR). This autumn and winter, there is every likelihood that Reader Hunley will again get his fill of "the greatest dramatic music...
...around with four stars on each shoulder, is so bashful that he doesn't wear his soldier suit regularly, and any officer who should dress up in the quaint costume of his trade in Washington, except for a fancy-pants party at the White House or a high-class scuffle at the home of some refined millionaire, would be accused of insufferable swank...
...Wood, but on the plus side of the ledger was a bumper crop of Sophomores and the customary rigorous non-intercollegiate competition. Matches in the Boston A, B, and C leagues are the training grounds for good intercollegiate play and make phenomenal individual improvements possible. Without this abundance of high-class competition, Coach Barnaby would have a much more difficult time in taking a green man in hand and making him a Varsity standout in a couple of years...
...hotel managers, or fond family folk who want a portrait of husband, wife or child. By looking over Mmes. Shaw & Duplaix's samples, they can decide which artist is their dish. Prices range from $50 (for a drawing job by Portraitist Hester Merwin) to $7,000 (for a high-class likeness, John Sargent style, by famed Society Painter Charles Hopkinson). For each job it gets them, 460 Park Avenue charges its artists a 33⅓ % commission...
Crammed from curtain to curtain with the antics of an ex-heavyweight champ, tuneful songs of a Harvard man, colorful dance arrangements and high-class special ties, "Hi Ya, Gentlemen" has come to town with a vim, vigor and verve making it a serious contender for the title of best musical comedy of the year. Incidentally, it proves what every sports-writer has always known: Max Baer is at heart the clown, not the fighter, and is better off by far in the former role...