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...Alexander Powell, author of By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne" and other travel books, is now traveling in America. He started at Abyssinia, where the king of the country entertained the American, then saw Madagascar and Megambique, and crossed Africa on the trail of Stanley. Along the Gold Coast north to Morocco and then a final motor dash across the Saharah, will finish his formidable and not exactly hackneyed expedition. He has a travel book partly written which The Century Co. will publish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 5/9/1924 | See Source »

Saturday afternoon, in Jordan Hall, Mr. Ernesto Berumen will give an interesting program, including the "Fantasia-Sonata (after a reading of "Dante") by Liszt, and Charles Griffes' excellent "White Peacock". Mr. Moriz Rosenthal, absent from Boston for seventeen years, will return and play in Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon. Messrs. Maier and Pattison, Mme. Gauthier, Mr. Pawlowsky are soon to come, while subscription is now open for the three concerts of the Flonzaley Quartet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING CONCERTS | 1/11/1924 | See Source »

...Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around the sophisticated maypole of their own futility. Pickled peacock stuffed with pistachio-nuts-champagne and liquid cream-cheese-a witty, mordant extravaganza of modern fools and fribbles and farceurs and fakers, at times moving, at times a little rancid, always pyrotechnic-an English Blind Bow-Boy with infinitely more brilliance, grace and bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Books: Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

...Roots '26 defeated N. K. Richtmeyer 1G., 6-4, 6-2; H. N. Snow 1G. defeated G. D. Reilly '27, 6-0, 6-0; L. O. Pratt '26 defeated A. S. Pinkham '25, 6-3, 6-4; G. Parker Jr. '27 defeated W. B. Peacock '25, 6-0, 6-0; Ira Morris '25 defeated A. T. Meriam 25, 2-6, 6-0, 6-1; Kan Lee 2G defeated C. T. Lane '26, 6-1, 6-3; J. D. Landauer 1L. won by default from L. B. Kentor 1G.; L. H. Bondi '25 defeated H. S. Kempner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEDED PLAYERS ADVANCE EASILY IN FIRST ROUND | 10/3/1923 | See Source »

...Scandals of 1923, which are as beautiful as a peacock and as humorous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 2, 1923 | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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