Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opening his recital at Jordan Hall last evening with "Promesse de mon avenir" (from 'Le Roi de Lahore' by Massenet), Mr. Henri Marcoux, baritone, impressed his audience at once with his mellow charm and confident vigor. As one would expect of such a finished singer, a protege of Mr. Isadore Braggiotti, there was no trace of diffident restraint, and by the time that M. Marcoux had concluded the second number of the next group he revealed the richness and subtle nuances of his unusual voice and stirred more than polite enthusiasm...
This year, which is the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the society, is the first year since 1916 that the Menorah Society has gone upon the stage. Ten years ago it gave a play in Jordan Hall called "The Book of Job", which was restored as a Greek tragedy by Dr. H. M. Kallen...
...personnel of the trip will be made up of Iselin, Oliver Ames II '27, R. A. Jordan Jr. '27, from the University, John Churchill of M. I. T., J. M. Woodworth, an Amherst graduate, Terence Keogh, a companion of Iselin's on six trips, and one professional. J. B. Sears of Robinson's Head, Newfoundland, the most famous cook in the region...
...Jordan and Churchill will make it their purpose to clear up several disagreements as to the nature of the fish of the region. It is a matter for debate whether they are Artic sea trout or salmon. It is possible that as the water grows colder the species change and blend together. This is important from the commercial point of view as the supply of salmon farther south is rapidly dwindling...
...religious services a day; that none of the ministers had "tipped" during or after the voyage; that several passengers refused to leave the ship because it had returned home one day sooner than the contract called for; that cabins had been cluttered with bottles of water from the River Jordan, from Red, Dead, Galilee Seas (bidding, at the end of the trip, sent the price per bottle to 50); that at Constantinople many failed to see the mosques' interiors because they would not trust their shoes to Moslem doormen...