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Emperor Nero is supposed to have been a bang-up organist and bagpiper. England's Henry VIII composed chamber music and religious choruses. Germany's Frederick the Great was a flute player. Most musical of present-day royal figures is Denmark's tall, genial Crown Prince Frederik...
...0nly the words of the Star-Spangled Banner were written by Francis Scott Key. The tune had its origin in 18th-Century England as the gusty club song of London's Anacreontic Society, is believed to have been written by one John Stafford Smith, the society's organist. The original words...
...never forgotten how, in his behind-the-counter drugstore days, he once sold five one-gallon jugs of mineral oil to a man who came in to buy a pint. Besides its own building in Moscow, Psychiana owns three drugstores, a daily paper, the News-Review. An accomplished organist, the founder has an 800-pipe Wurlitzer in his big Moscow home, invariably includes organ solos (preferably Brahms) in his infrequent lectures. Though in those lectures Doc Robinson is inclined to blast the Christian churches, thus annoying many of his hearers, he has Christian charities at home-last year he gave...
...probably influenced by the romance," said Evangelist Utley in explaining why she married in a church not of her own denomination. She instructed the Little Church's organist, however, to play her favorite revival songs - Rose of Sharon, In My Heart There Rings a Melody-during the ceremony. Rev. Randolph Ray, urbane rector of the Little Church, appeared pleased at the chance to officiate for a "lady evangelist." Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Langkop went to Old John Street Methodist Church, in downtown Manhattan, where she slipped on a black robe, assisted at the wedding of her 21-year...
Last week on the anniversary of this pioneer broadcast in Calvary Church- largest Episcopal Church between New York and the Mississippi-Rector van Etten again broadcast on KDKA. He organized a choir with numerous boys whose fathers had sung in the 1921 service, had it accompanied by the organist of the original broadcast. An extempore sermonizer, Dr. van Etten found the notes of his first broadcast, attempted to reconstruct his 17-year-old words, ad libbing as well on the wonders of radio...