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...Taylor, who has judged shows from Montreal to San Diego, had 200 birds to listen to. Until Judge Taylor was ready to hear them, the birds were kept in a darkened bedroom of Portland's Heathman Hotel, occasionally fed oily black rape seed that their voices might be mellow. By teams of four, then singly, Judge Taylor had them brought into another room, where bright light made them burst into song. If they were reticent, he shook a wooden rattle, coaxed, "Come on, boy." Listening for Rolls, Gluckes, Bells, Schokels, Flutes, and for faults- Hard Aufzug, Bad Nasal Tour...
...lovers gawped and gloated while more than $1,000,000 worth of Strads (violins, violas, cellos: 20 instruments in all) were played at a single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death...
...Lunts studied the play, which they were quick to see contained one of their favorite situations, for several months before trying it out last June in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Later they took it to Baltimore, Washington and Cleveland, to whose critics the play seemed "mellow . . . exhilarating . . . sparkling . . . sagacious." To provincial Lunt-Fontanne fans, Amphitryon 38 was pretty much what the doctor ordered. Broadway was not surprised when Amphitryon 38 rode into Manhattan to find first-nighters willing to pay as high as $100 for a pair of seats...
Once or twice a year, Copey gives his regular readings to the now Freshman Class in the Union, and from time to time sees a few members of the class, selected by their English teachers, in his apartment on Concord Street. So it cannot be said that the mellow influence of one of Harvard's greatest teaching personalities will be unfelt by the Class...
...until he was past 70 did Anti-Feminist See begin to mellow. Last year one of his female cousins persuaded him to give a dinner for 15 leading Manhattan women, with the result that Mr. See announced his conversion, at least to the extent of approving women's colleges...