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...Because Irvington House, a home on the Hudson for cardiac children, burned down two years ago and a new one is needed, Manhattan last week was treated to one of the best shows it has had in years. The evening started out like most expensive, long-winded benefits. Big, shambling Heywood Broun introduced famed playwrights and authors who stepped out on the platform, allowed the audience to look at them. Grover Whalen, the city's greatest handshaker, pompously read a paper describing the Cause and used all his superlatives to boost the talent which followed: Sopranos Evelyn Herbert...
...sliding keyboard so that he can get the effect of playing in other keys. Irving Berlin creates his tunes by humming them. He sang "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in good Eddie Cantor fashion, after he had made a monkey of himself for Irvington House, walked away with the show...
...Neylon, Springfield, J. L. Noyes, Shaker Heights, Ohio, H. G. Olken, Cambridge, P. E. Parker, Swampscott, O. H. Pearson, Dorchester, D. E. Peter, Melrose, H. M. Plotkin, Athol, S. A. Polk, Stewartstown, Pa., W. Rickel, Elmhurst, Del., W. W. Rodgers, Leicester, J. R. Sanderson, Brockton, J. T. Sapienza, Irvington, N. J., E. R. Sargent, Wolfsboro, N. H., R. B. Schlatter, Fostoria, Ohio, A. B. Schneider, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, R. V. Scudder, St. Louis, Mo., W. Shapiro, Roxbury, W. K. Simpson, Chelmsford, N. Smith, New York City, D. S. Tarbell, Winchester, N. H., E. B. Taylor, Chicago, Ill., A. Thompson, Cambridge...
Members of the Irvington Board of Education and Dr. Charles H. Elliott, State Commissioner of Education, grew speedily angry when they heard of the examination results. They demanded an explanation. They said that Superintendent Saunders, a native Pennsylvania!, had cooked up a hard examination in order to discriminate against New Jersey normal school graduates. Something was wrong, evidently, if not one person in 116 could pass an examination to be a teacher...
...that the normal schools put too much emphasis on teaching methods and modern psychology, not enough on "fundamentals." Many an observer, glancing at the questions, agreed that all might easily be solved by any clear-thinking secondary school pupil who knew his fundamentals. But the teachers' committee of the Irvington Board of Education felt that the efficiency of New Jersey normal schools was called in question. Meeting last week, it voted unanimously to put the matter before the State Department of Education...