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Parker Gilbert. The hymn of Fascist Italy, often bellowed by Benito Mussolini, exalts "Youth! Youth...
Engaged. Frances Minturn Hall. Manhattan scioness & sculptress, great-granddaughter of Author Julia Ward Howe ("Battle Hymn of the Republic"), kinswoman of Publisher & Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Editor & Mrs. Edward W. Bok, the late Novelist F. Marion Crawford, the late Socialite Ward McAllister; to Thomas Clark Howard, son of Henry Howard, Newport chemical engineer & yachtsman...
...remarkable, too, that there has been no signal contribution to Christmas music in the last few years. Except for the one hymn of Phillips Brooks which is a part of every Christmas, the songs that are sung are those of men of two and three and more centuries ago, when Christmas meant more, perhaps, than it does now; written, not with skill according to technique, but from their hearts. That they are sung today without question, without thinking of the ignorance which put Palestine shepherds watching over their flocks in the snow that covered the more familiar English fields...
...only place where taste wabbles in this number is in the hymn parodies Nobody yet has made sacrilege funny though all have tried; and while these parodies aren't sacrilegious, they aren't funny either. Otherwise, there is many a gleam of the old Lampy in this number; and there are improvements, tod. It is a very encouraging sign of the times; quite as encouraging, in its own way, as the events of November 24 at Yale Field. Magazines are men, as much as football teams or colleges either...
...evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery-having thrown their last stench bomb-grouped about their clergyman and sang a triumphant hymn...