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Whistler is the greatest single name in the collection. His famous " Peacock Room," transported bodily from London, is there, the room which Whistler painted for the English shipping magnate, Leyland, whom he satirized as a peacock rising from a mound of gold...
Griffes' "Clouds" invites comparison with Debussy's "Images" heard here last year. It seems to gain by the comparison; the "White Peacock" is also a beautiful bit of color work; the more one hears of Griffes the more one becomes convinced that he is the American composer--not that he is distinctively American, but that being an American, he achieves such beauties...
...Selton Hale Scholarship in the University Law School, founded in memory of Shelton Hale LL.B. '16, has been awarded to Roland H. Peacock of Freeport, Maine, who graduated from Bowdoin College in 1920 and is now a first-year student in the Law School...
Unusual arrangements for scenery, details of which have just been made public, have been made this year. The introduction of gorgeous displays of color has been attempted especially in the ship scene, where the bridge will be designed, in black and gold; a huge peacock, in splendid colors, is perched on the balustrade of the bridge. All the scenery will be constructed under the personal supervision of Eugene Frost and Edward S. Ely, two of the country's most famous designers, and recently put in charge of the work on the scenery of the new Hippodrome in the Boston Arena...
...accent this year will be upon the beautiful, departing from the military aspect of last year's victory tournament. The floats this year are expected to surpass in their magnificence those of former years, some of which have become historical, such as the famous flower peacock entered by Mrs. Anita Baldwin...