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This is Guy Vernor Slade "32, former leader and now the "maestro of the drill," from whose brain are evolved the formations and maneuvers which delight the crowds each Saturday. The "best examples of his talent are the "bow and arrow" and "wah hoo wah" formations staged for the Hanoverians last Saturday...
...orchestramen there is only one maestro. They called Otto Klemperer...
...soon became apparent to Theodore Bilbo that his camp-meeting, rabble-rousing rant had a definite appeal for rural "red necks." He became known as ''The Pearl of Pearl River County," sometimes called himself "The Old Maestro of the Stump," but more often simply referred to himself in the third person as "The Man Bilbo." He was sent to the State Legislature where he openly admitted taking bribes, but was acquitted by a jury. In 1916 he became Governor. In his first term he began a widely ballyhooed public building program of insane asylums, reform schools, tuberculosis sanatoria...
...Last year in Manhattan he had them for every Philharmonic concert. Bruno Walter and Hans Lange, the other two Philharmonic conductors, could never quite fill Carnegie Hall last season. Since Herr Walter has been in Austria, however, he has developed the trick of jam-packing concert halls like the Maestro himself. His performances of Weber's Oberon and Mozart's Don Giovanni left few doubts that he had run off with the opera honors, might well be considered the Festival's Hero...
...John nevertheless shares with most Britons a passion for exterminating what he understands by "cruelty to animals." He frowned black disapproval last week upon the "refined rodeo" now being staged in London by SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS He will put his police into disorder. U. S. Cowboy Maestro Tex Austin. First amused, then indignant, the Wild West promoter was summoned to West London Police Court on the charge that in his rodeo he had "permitted an animal to be terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded and dashed...