Word: maclaren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March, "Semper Fidelis"Sousa *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *"Bach Goes to Town" (A Fugue in Swing) Templeton *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky "Scheherazade," Finale Rimsky-Korsakov Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies -- Miriam Winslow, Foster Fitz-Simons and Eusemble Warrene Bulkeley Jacqueline Magrath June MacLaren Mary Morse *"Little Women" (Theme and Variations) Tchaikovsky "City Faun" (Satirical Dance Morton Gould *Magnificat (Air for the G String) Bach "Caribbee" Milhaud *"Archangel" (Gymnopedio I) Satle "Frail Woman" (Excerpts from "Pour les Enfants") Tansman "Chromo: American Dance" (Harmonica Player from Alley Tunes) Guion *Polonaise Militaire Chopin *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Score Harvard...
MORALLY WE ROLL ALONG-Gay MacLaren-Little, Brown...
...When Gay MacLaren was a little girl she decided to become an elocutionist after she heard a Chautauqua performer recite The Bobolink. The high point of this performance was a trill: cheeeeeee, prrrrrrr, cheeeeeeeeeeeeee, which Gay practiced so hard her South Dakota neighbors asked her if she didn't know a piece with some other kind of bird in it. But Gay kept on practicing, studied elocution in Minneapolis, finally got her big chance at the New York Chautauqua. Thereafter she followed the Chautauqua circuit, along with chalk-talk artists, bell ringers, evangelists, yodlers, zither performers, magicians, bagpipe players...
...lecture telling the audience how hard it had been for him to get there, announced that he had only ten minutes to make his train, and dashed away. But good-natured provincial audiences seemed to sleep just as contentedly through that sort of performance as any other. Although Gay MacLaren summons up a vanished area of U. S. cultural life in Morally We Roll Along, tells some good stories, the main impression communicated by her book is that in the end she decided that the childhood advice of her South Dakota neighbors was not so bad as she had thought...
That evening he boarded a train at St. Andrews, N. B. His farewell to Lieut. Governor Murray MacLaren of New Brunswick: "I hope to come back next year even if it is in the role of a private citizen." Next morning in Quebec he was welcomed aboard his train as a visiting sovereign. John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada and the person of His Majesty the King in the Dominion, met the Presidential special, accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour...