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...fortnight ago the first issue of Singing, The Voice Magazine (Alfred Human,* Editor) appeared on the newsstands, was eagerly bought and discussed by the practitioners of the trade. Singing, its first readers found, was somewhat patchily made up. It contained an article by W. J. Henderson, critic, who pooh-poohed the popular reverence for opera stars, calling Emilio de Gogorza, concert baritone, "the supreme artist of them all." It was embellished by a page of caricatures of famed musicians, by a blurred "Art Supplement," and by a song entitled "A Memory" and beginning: Somehow I feel that thou art near...
...musical comedies. After this he went on the road for some years "learning that anything constitutes an orchestra from a jewsharp to an accordion, and that bad musicians on he one-nighters were as often good blacksmiths, cobblers and back drivers as well as bank presidents, selectmen, and town 'Pooh-Bahs...
...pipkin piped a petulant "pooh" To the garrulous gawp of the gale...
...stretch of time would necessarily impose an intolerable burden upon the Chancellor. Moreover, it was pointed out by The New York Times, that, if the Government were forced to resign before a President were elected, Chancellor Luther would be in the same sort of situation as was the Pooh-Bah in Gilbert & Sullivan's famed Mikado, viz: Luther as Chancellor would be obliged to tender his resignation to himself as President and having accepted his own resignation would have to find a successor for himself as Chancellor...
...Daeschner, when he was so gracefully ushered in by Mr. J. Butler Wright, had exclaimed "Pooh!" and spat upon the carpet; if the President, in rejoinder, had ejaculated, "Bah!" and blown his nose with rage, the public would have been none the wiser...