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...boys enjoy an envious name in their line. Generally they restrict their polling to "an extremely representative committee of outstanding artists and showmen," but this time they have evolved the idea of consulting the leading Universities, which include, besides Harvard, Hobart, Black Mountain, Sturgeon Bay Teachers, Little Creek, Yale, Ripon, C.N.C.N.C.N.C.Y., the Hobo College, Pierre Foundation of Budding Studs, Rollins, and the newly founded Society of Agrarian Aggies...
Boys. When a special bus bumped into Ripon, Wis. one afternoon last week, 20 world-famous little boys got out of it. Though they had traveled 300 wet, slippery miles from South Bend, Ind., the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna) were erect and lively as they marched into their hotel. There they stripped to the waist, scrubbed their faces, brushed their teeth, composed themselves for a short nap. That night they made the little college town gasp at their sweet voices and expert phrasing. Students, teachers and farmers from 100 miles around listened reverently to da Vittoria...
Though they had sung nothing but ecclesiastical music for more than four centuries, their programs took a more secular turn. In Ripon the boys prefaced their church songs with the Star Spangled Banner, sung with the same scrupulous care they would put into a mass. They clowned superbly in a special number based on Strauss's Blue Danube, neatly and beautifully acted a closing scene from Hansel & Gretel...
...their fifth U. S. tour the Wiener Sängerknaben still eat heartily, still complain that they are not allowed chewing gum. They range from 8 to 13. After the Ripon concert they were to go to New Castle, Pa. thence to Hamilton...
Clark W. Freeman '37, of Cambridge; Sidney Gleason, II ocC, of Newton; Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, of Chestnut Hill; Charles P. Haseltino '36, of Ripon, Wisconsin; Andrew Hutchinson '36, of West Newton; Andrew A. Kasper 4E.S., of Watertown; James T. Kilbreth, Jr. '36, of Hewlitt, Long Island; Harry Marvin-Smith '37, of Rye, New York; George A. Matteson, Jr. '36, of San Antonio, Texas...