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...Inglis Lecturer for 1935 Samuel S. Drury '01, member of the Board of Overseers, and Rector of Saint Paul's School. Concord, New Hampshire, has chosen "The Care of the Pupil" for the title of the address which he will deliver in the Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum, at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening...
...than two years ago began to spawn rumors about this picture. French Novelist Paul Morand had written its scenario from the Cervantes classic. The producers had thrown out the musical jello which Composer Jules Massenet provided in his opera Don Quichotte, had commissioned new tunes from Jacques Ibert, able pupil of Maurice Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions, one in French, the other in English. In both versions Russian Basso Feodor Chaliapin was playing and singing the Caballero...
Giuseppe Bentonelli was Joe Benton from Sayre, Okla., who frankly admits that he changed his name to make it sound bigger abroad. Joe Benton was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Oklahoma in 1920. As a singer he was a pupil of the late great Jean de Reszke, a protégé of Chicago's old Kate Buckingham who gave Grant Park its fountain. Kate Buckingham gave Joe Benton a big champagne party after his debut last week in Tosca. Critics praised a new tenor who had a high clear voice and could...
Wittgenstein was once a prize pupil of the Master Leschitizky who taught Paderewski. In those days he had two hands. Year after his Viennese debut came the War. Like any loyal 25-year-old Austrian, he went off to fight. On the way to the Russian frontier his right arm was wounded. He lost consciousness, woke up to find himself in a Russian prison camp. He was shunted about behind the lines, spent six months in Siberia before his group was exchanged for Russian prisoners in Austria...
...Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...