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Last year's winner was R. H. Jones '30, who gave a selection from "Cyrano de Bergerac," while M. V. Anastos '30 won the Boylston prize for his rendering of "Orpheus and Eurydice" from Virgil's fourth Georgic in Latin. Third and fourth places were taken by H. G. Meyer '30 with a selection from Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" and Carleton Green '30, who recited Tennyson's "Ulysses...
...when musicians present one another with wreaths. By this token a big, bearish Russian might have felt doubly honored last week in Manhattan. He received not only a floral wreath, but a lyre made of red and white carnations and inscribed "in the name of American musicians to this Orpheus of Russia." The famed, hulking Orpheus was Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov, now making his first visit to the U. S. and appearing last week as conductor of his own works...
Manhattanites were startled last week in unexpected spots about the city by hearing groups of men suddenly burst into loud song. Those sufficiently curious to approach the tuneful gatherings noticed red ribbons dangling from lapels, with such words as "Peterboro," "Grachur," "Apollo," "Orpheus," neatly lettered in gold. Next day, the newspapers explained what the impromptu incantations were all about. Some 4,000 members of the Associated Glee Clubs of America, in 70 units, had paid their own expenses, traveled from all parts of the continent for a giant sing-song in vasty Madison Square Garden. By letter the various units...
Jones was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of Edmund Rostand's "Selection from Cyrano de Bergerac." The Boylston award of $50 was presented to Anastos for his delivery in the original Latin of "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice", from the Fourth Georgie by Virgil. Meyer, reciting a selection from Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus", and Greene, with Tennyson's "Ulysses", were awarded the two other Boylston prizes which had been announced as $30 each but which were yesterday increased...
...George Huddleston: R. H. Jones '30: Selection from "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmund Rostand: W. A. Fowlie '31: "Blue Symphony," by J. G. Fletcher; Carleton Greene '30: "Ulysses," by Alfred Lord Tennyson: F. I. Kogos '29: "Boots," by Rudyard Kipling: M. V. Anastos '30: "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice," from the Fourth Georgic, by Virgil: E. J. Day '31: Ecclesiastes, Chapters XI and XII: F. F. Hart '30: "A Tribute to Robert E. Lee," by Charles H. Brough...