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...that way? I know more dentists in U. S. than do all the column writers put together. I can mention scores of big game hunters, mountain climbers and real soldiers from the list of any dental society and prove to you that as a class the dental profession is as valorous as any and more than most...
Thomas Mann is less known in this country for Death in Venice, a collection of long short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy. One is therefore the more surprised that he produces Children and Fools, a collection of actual short stories. And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels...
Henry Dwight, Sedgwich '81 is the author of an outstanding biography, "Lafayette". Percy Mackaye '97 has just published two collections of plays "The Gobbler of God" and "Kentucky Mountain". Robert Hillyer '17 has written "The Seventh Hill", a volume of verse which received considerable favorable comment throughout the country...
German. For two and a half years the German dug the brisk point of his intelligence into Gobi's secretive sand. Through the desert he trekked southward accompanied by obscure missionaries. When the sands of the desert grew cold in the mountain passes of Thibet, his feet chilled and hardened. Feet still half-frozen when he arrived at Leh, in northern India, he announced happily to the world that the scientific purpose of his wanderings (not stated) had been accomplished. He is Dr. Wilhelm Filchner...
...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock, tonight: Overture to "H Matrimonio Segreto" Cimarosa Ballet Suite Gluck-Mottl Overture to "Matilde de Shabran" Rossini Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini" Berlioz "A Night on Bald Mountain" Moussorgsky Salome's Dance, from "Salome" Strauss Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet Entr'acte from "Messidor" Bruneau Polortsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin