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...deplored the profession's "cutthroat competition," stepped up by refugee musicians in the U. S. The ladies re-elected as their president curly-browed, sweet-spoken Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober of Norfolk, Va., to whom The Good Fairy Valse was dedicated and played by Pianist Henry Holden Huss. Mrs. Ober waved a triumphant wand...
Centuries of Austrian rule schooled the Czechs in the tricks of passive resistance. Last week word was passed around in Prague that it would be a good trick to decorate the memorial of John Huss, martyred Czech hero who fought for reform of the Catholic Church and was burned at the stake in 1415. On the eve of Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such...
...Diana of Madison Square Garden, and pulled from its archives drawings and plans of special interest to architects. There were preliminary drawings for the pompously domed Astor's Hotel, pride of lower Broadway in the 1830's. There were the competition drawings by Architects George Martin Huss and John Henry Buck for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of the four finalists, the Huss & Buck Gothic cathedral was finally beaten out by the Romanesque plans of Heins & Lafarge, but bears embarrassing resemblance to the cathedral as redesigned and now being built by Ralph Adams Cram...
...first settlers of Bethlehem, Pa., were a small religious group of Moravians (followers of John Huss) who, according to legend, held their first meeting in a stable, thus gave the place its name. Later, during the Revolutionary War, the Moravians attracted attention to Bethlehem by taking the lead off the roof of their church, melting it down for Colonial bullets. General George Washington was serenaded by the Moravian Trombone Choir, already an important group of trumpeters whose chief function was to announce festival days, births and deaths, from the church belfry. He also went to the church, listened...
...Germany. Eastward they thronged Russia, pierced in slim wedges to the Pacific. Southward they trekked to Hungary, Albania, Greece. By the sth century A.D. they had ceased to be a nation, were even losing race consciousness. Gradually the widespread Slavic peoples adopted Christianity. The 15th century martyr, Bohemian John Huss, was their most eloquent devotee of the cross. Today only the esoteric significance of language, as understood by pedants, betrays the Slavic as the most numerous of European races. Miscegenation and environment have destroyed racial semblance, shattered racial pride. There are more than 150,000,000 Russians, Poles, Kashubes, Serbs...