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After brief layoffs during the midyear period both the University and Second sextets have returned to the ice, the University squad in preparation for a Canadian invasion from Laval University tomorrow night and the Seconds in anticipation of their encounter this afternoon with the Country Day School hockey team...
...Pierre Laval Minister of Justice...
Aristide Briand.................Premier & Foreign Raoul Peret............................. Finance Pierre Laval............................ Justice Louis Malvy............................. Interior Lucien Lamoureux........................ Education *Paul Painleve.......................... War *GeorKes Leygues........................ Marine *Anatole de Monzie...................... Public Works *Daniel Vincent......................... Commerce *Jean Durand............................ Agriculture *Antome Durafour........................ Labor *Paul Jourdain.......................... Pensions *Leon Perrier........................... Colonies...
...again last week, 50 year later, in Carnegie Hall with a chorus of 200 and a large orchestra drawn from the New York Symphony. An earnest audience, knowing Elijah to be good, assumed the performance to be equally good; applauded indiscriminately mediocre singing by Marjorie Nash, soprano; by Jeanne Laval, contralto; the Elijah of Baritone Louis Gravewre, celebrating his tenth anniversary in the role with a performance well below his usual excellent standard; Septuagenarian Dan Beddoe, greatest of all oratorio tenors at his very best; voluminous but monstrous choral work under the leadership of Albert Stoessel...
...Sieur de La Salle, might or might not recognize himself in the completely noble explorer here exhibited. He might be embarrassed by his courage, amused by his asceticism, surprised by the glossy perfection of his friends and enemies-Frontenac, Tonty, Mmes. de Montespan and de Maintenon, Joliet, Marquette, de Laval and the rest. But he would appreciate that, romancing apart, a full historical record of his efforts to build a Mississippi kingdom for France was what the author patiently sought, thoroughly contrived...