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Among musicians it is generally agreed that string chamber music is the highest, purest medium of expression. The wealthy patrons of art have taken heed: Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, James P. Warburg, Mrs. Robert Bliss, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbalist. So, in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall, last week, a new quartet was heard, enthusiastically applauded for a lovely rendition of the Mozart C Major, Schubert D Minor-the Musical Art Quartet. Three of the artists are pupils of Franz Kneisel:-Sascha Jacobsen, Bernard Ocko, Louis Kaufman; one, Marie Roemaet-Rosanov, cellist, pupil...
...Arnheim, Holland, Aeneas Alexander Mackay, 13th Baron Reay, Chief of the Scottish Clan of Mackay, self-exiled in the Netherlands because of a feud between his ancestors and Charles (1600-1649), summoned his relatives to celebrate his "coming of age." Proud, they beheld him stand before them, 6 ft., 9 in. in his stockings, "the tallest peer...
...quid" (?1=$4.85) for every mile their ships steamed in 1925. Instead, for 16,450,000 miles of steaming, the company can show a profit of only "two bob" (2 shillings=24.5c each) per mile. As President of the Board of the P. & O., James Lyle Mackay, First Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, 73, unchallenged maritime seigneur,** deigned to make no statement last week when the P. & O. balance sheet flashed over the cables. For him spoke his son-in-law, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, a Director of the Bank of England...
Meanwhile Miss Virginia Mackay-Smith, daughter of Bishop Mackay-Smith of Washington, fretted and grew petulant because the dashing and long socially popular Captain Boy-Ed insisted that he had not yet received permission from his superior, Grand Admiral Tirpitz, to marry her and take her back with him to Germany. Boy-Ed sailed without Miss Mackay-Smith, who was obliged to wait for the War to end before hastening to marry him in Germany...
...Swearingen brought the conference to order, spoke a bit on the "greatest opportunity for the Church in general since the Reformation," the opportunity to soothe racial and national unrest. Dr. R. P. Mackay of Toronto urged the teaching of Christianity in the schools as a preventive of lawlessness, domestic infelicity and other social unrest. Dr. George Warren Richards of Lancaster, Pa., read the rules for the merger. All except Dr. George Summey of New Orleans agreed. He dissented because he felt that the benefits of the union were not clear, as the General Council was only an executive body while...