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...unusual case when a man holds a position as conductor of a famous Symphony orchestra for five consecutive years, and during that time grows and develops in an almost uninterrupted course, so that his last season is a real crown for his labors, and the last concert its greatest jewel. Such, certainly is the record of Pierre Monteux, who Thursday evening took leave of Cambridge, and yesterday afternoon commenced a two days' farewell to Boston. The concert was a real culmination, and it seems almost certain that Mr. Monteux will be unable to surpass it, if he succeeds in equalling...
...born in Harrodsburg, Ky., studied in her native state and at Wellesley, went to Paris where she studied Art, miniature painting, jewel working. She exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1904-5. A woman of tremendous energy, she has made her life fit her needs and has insisted upon being active. She is much interested in the cinema-several of her novels and stories having been transferred to the screen. Now she is planning to have a projector installed in her room so that she can see the newer films...
...manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price of her precious jewel of virtue...
...from Brodney's. A comprehensive ignorance, possibly pardonable, of the works of George Barr McCutcheon prevents comparison herein of his novel and this resultant picture. His curiously exotic imagination has taken a group of characters to a strange island rich in jewel mines. Dying, the owners left a will which would return the treasures to the natives unless their son and daughter married. Fortuitously involved are a beautiful foreign Princess and one Hollingsworth Chase, American adventurer. The walking delegate of the Natives' Union, local No. 1, argues that the matter may best be settled by massacring the whole...
...strolling player idea has cropped up in the Ford Truck tour of New England by the Jitney Players. Headed by Bushnell Cheney, youthful Yale graduate, and his wife, Alice Keating, the group will present Creatures of Impulse, by W. S. Gilbert, and James Branch Cabell's The Jewel Merchants to New England communities throughout the summer. Their stage consists of automatic contrivances built on the body of two Ford trucks. Their season opened at Madison, Conn., July...