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...once-trim hull battered, her rigging tattered, her Diesel auxiliary wheezing, her worn-out crew grumbling. Waiting on shore among reporters who thought they might get a story was a deputy U. S. marshal with a handful of subpoenas. The reporters got a whopper from Captain Robert B. Hoffmann, who had plenty to say: "A Hollywood treasure hunt-fooey! The whole thing was nuts from the very beginning." He soon was testifying before a grand jury and telling his story to the press...
...Ernst Hoffmann. '18, Guest Conductor "Cruiser Harvard," MarchStrube *Overture to "Oberon" Weber *Three German Dances Mozart *Symphony No. 5, "From the New World," Allegro con fuoco Dvorak G. Wallace Woodworth, '24, Guest Conductor Music for Freemasons Mozart Soloist Joseph E. Lautner Tarantella Randall Thompson, '20 Cannon: "O Due Eselhafter Martin" Mozart Symphony No. 2, Final Randall Thompson, '20 *Choruses from the Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Soloist: D. P. MacAllester, '38 The Harvard Glee Club Leroy Anderson, '29, Guest Conductor *Dance of the Buffoons, From "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakov *"Vienna Life," Waltzes Strauss *Harvard Fantasy Leroy Anderson, '29 Fair Harvard...
Next Monday is Harvard Night at the Pops. The program will be divided into three parts, with a guest conductor for each group of pieces. First visiting maestro will be Ernest Hoffmann '18, who has proved his ability to many Cambridge music lovers in his former conducting of the State Symphony Orchestra. He will present a march by Strube called "Harvard Cruiser." This will be followed by von Weber's Overture to "Oberon," with Three German Dances by Mozart and Dvorak's "New World" Symphony bringing the group to a close...
...pince-nezed, gouty Offenbach was not satisfied with being the most popular light-weight composer in the world. All his life he nursed an ambition to write a serious opera. He fulfilled his ambition just before he died, in the fantastic, melodious Tales of Hoffmann. Today Composer Offenbach's operettas are mostly forgotten. But Tales of Hoffmann still holds the boards in most opera houses, and the famous Barcarolle from its third act is still played by restaurant & café orchestras all over the world...
...Dressed in my costume as the Venetian courtesan in The Tales of Hoffmann, I looked for all the world like one of Casanova's memoirs. . . . Thunderous applause and generous bravos (some of these, I suspect, for my extremely feminine thighs and legs, well shown off by smooth. skin-tight trunks in my third-act costume.... I knew that four of my beaus were in the audience. Each one had carefully let me know where he would be sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went...