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...Lampoon, diminutive landmark of Mt. Auburn Street and well known piccolo player yesterday announced this evening as the date of his professional debut when he will take the stage in a solo at the University Theatre's stag smoker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bob Lampoon Will Make Debut on Stage of University Theatre--To Play Piccolo in Scotch Garb | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

...following instruments will be accepted for the Mandolin Club: mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass viol. For the Banjo Club the tenor banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and the piccolo are eligible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS CALL OUT CANDIDATES | 2/8/1927 | See Source »

...drawing up a new state constitution for New York.* People called it a model. In Washington the name of Elihu Root began to be whispered. President McKinley appointed him Secretary of War; President Roosevelt liked him, kept him in office. Mr. Root became busier than the one-handed piccolo player. He despatched 70,000 troops to put down General Aguinaldo's insurrection in the Philippines and wrote a complete constitution and code of statutes for the Islands; he acted for the U. S. in the internation dispute over the Boxer Rebellion; he (not President Roosevelt as is popularly thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ablest, Wisest | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Which one of the following is Norman Leslie Derham: a piccolo player, a horse thief, a Siamese twin, a barber, a golf champion, a Juke, a man-in-the-street, a Fiji emperor, or a Channel swimmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Sep. 27, 1926 | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Composer Mascagni believes that all his operas are as good, if not better, than Cavalleria, Rusticana. II Piccolo Marat, for instance, which has been given in Rome and Buenos Aires though never in Manhattan, is a far neater piece of construction; four interweaving orchestral tones, built on four connected themes, knit the score to- gether; the scene is Nantes during the Terror, the villain, one Orso, a guillotining cockaded butcher, the heroine is his daughter, the hero, a nobleman so pure that he is called "The Little Marat." What more could one ask? And yet Pietro Mascagni, now walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Roistering Nights | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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