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Every Scots chief had his hereditary piper who was entitled to a gilli (servant) to carry his pipes. The piper had the status of a gentleman. Wherever the chief went, his piper went along too. In the early morning while the laird was dressing the piper promenaded in front of the castle, piping his master a good morning. In emulation of the Scottish lairds, the English kings had their court pipers. Henry VIII was a notable bagpiper. Today in front of Buckingham Palace there parades in the morning the King's Piper. George V keenly enjoys the music...
...Germanic city like Milwaukee can long endure without music of its own. One Milwaukee orchestra lately died. Last week another was born, named the Milwaukee Philharmonic, with 65 players from the old. Frank Laird Waller, the new conductor, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin who has been organist, accompanist, vocal teacher, guest conductor in Paris, Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Rochester, Minneapolis, Cincinnati. With steady, vigorous beat he last week directed his Milwaukee debut. Featured were Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Yvonne Gall and Baritone William Phillips in excerpts from Faust. The rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture...
Married. Hiram Edward Manville Jr. of Manhattan and Pleasantville, N. Y., son of the asbestos tycoon; and Ethel Bredt Schniewind. Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Married. Laird Shields Goldsborough. Associate Editor (Foreign News) of TIME, to Miss Florence McConaughy of York, England; in Goldsborough Church, Goldsborough, Yorkshire...
...extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
...British steel industry came last week a series of mergers, from which may result the formation of a British steel cartel to meet foreign competition in world markets. First came a triple merger involving three British steel makers (Vickers, Vickers-Armstrong, and Cammell, Laird & Co.) who united all their interests, except their armament works, in a company to be called the English Steel Corp., Ltd. Capital: about $100,000,000. Then came another merger-the union of Dorman Long, Ltd. with Bolckow Vaughan & Co., Ltd. Capital also about $100,000,000. An export agreement has been concluded and an effort...