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...What are you doing tomorrow, Bernard?" asked a friend recently of Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, Duke of Norfolk, the Premier Duke and Earl Marshal and Great Steward and Chief Butler of England, whose illustrious family have the hereditary duty of arranging the King's Coronation...
...Norfolk, Va. one day last October, a musician named George E. von Schilling was idly playing an accordion in his sitting room while his son Stanwurt, 3, toddled nearby. On a chair lay an euphonium, a tuba-like brass horn which Mr. von Schilling had borrowed from a friend. Suddenly Father von Schilling heard a soft beep from the big euphonium, saw that Son Stanwurt was not only blowing into it but blowing correctly from the solar plexus rather than from the chest. Von Schilling leaped to a piano, struck an F and B flat which the child immediately echoed...
Father von Schilling, on & off relief, coached small Stanwurt until the youngster could play a man-sized repertoire without fatigue to his peewee chest, throat, lips, cheeks. In December Stanwurt played the euphonium at a policemen's entertainment in Norfolk City Auditorium. Then he graduated to the biggest wind instrument of all, the Sousaphone (see cut). From H. N. White Co. in Cleveland, Father von Schilling obtained a King Giant Sousaphone with a 28-in. gold bell and the standard-sized mouthpiece. The Sousaphone was mounted on a rack so that Stanwurt could crawl into it, huff & puff, while...
Although most Jesuits, after 13 years of secluded study, have left home and family well behind, many a New Yorker recognized Fordham's new head as a native. Son of the late President Frank Stanislaus Gannon of Norfolk Southern R. R., slim, curly-headed Father Gannon has been a Jesuit for 23 of his 43 years. No stranger to Fordham, he taught there as a scholastic, directed student dramatics, organized a play shop. After his ordination he studied educational methods at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge, Perugia, Louvain. In 1930 the Jesuit Father General sent him to reopen St. Peter...
...date most favored by early guessers on the coronation. May 12 was finally decided upon because the leaves would not be too far out to obstruct rooftop views of the coronation procession. Privately King Edward told his most dear brother and counselor and the Duke of Norfolk, who is officially responsible for arranging the coronation, to do everything they possibly could to simplify the interminable ritual...