Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most unusual item on the program is the first number by Madame Lili Boulanger, entitled "Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat". Madame Boulanger is the only woman who has ever won the "Prix de Rome", the most coveted prize of the Paris Conservatory of Music...
...Times stresses, however, one item which does not make pleasant reading on this side of the Atlantic. That is the fact that "the average attendance, even in great American cities such as Chicago, is deplorably low compared even with English country town average attendance"; it is "almost as low in the United States as it was in Ireland." That fact, if it is a fact, the Carnegie report did not divulge...
...hate to cap the Colonel's comments but we ran across an interesting item ourselves the other morning under the head of "Notes from the Training Camps...
...increased expense has, of course, largely been occasioned by much needed purchasing and repairing of equipment, impossible during previous leaner years. If the expansion of trade continues, railroad gross receipts should continue large, and permit a continued policy of improving equipment; this should in turn begin to reduce the item of " maintenance," which has naturally been proportionately heavy while old equipment had to be used. Such a policy is always most expensive in the end. The most serious foe to railroad prosperity is probably Congress, and not until December can the danger of further legislative experiment be added...
...following item from the daily press appears singularly symbolical, if only someone can be found to interpret...