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...source of great concern to the police. Although the country is not dry, alcoholic beverages are saddled with exceptionally high duty, which acts in some measure as an effective prohibition law. The smugglers buy the spirits in Germany at one crown a liter and sell it to Scandinavian countries at six crowns or more. The perplexed police are biting their nails with anger at the baffling tactics employed by the smart rum-runners...
...answer to innumerable proddings the publishers of Holst's "Planets" at last sent the parts thus enabling Mr. Monteux to fulfill a promise of long standing. Holst is an Englishman of Scandinavian extraction, and might have been expected, from the qualifications to be a loyal follower of Grieg. But he has thoroughly submerged any Scandinavian traits, not, however, to become English. His work is reminiscent of no other composer. In melody, in harmony, but most strikingly in orchestration, he is absolutely original. It is, moreover, an interesting, a powerful originality. Never except in the Glee Club's great song...
...epic characters, Northern Gods and Scandinavian heroes...
Together with Mr. S. F. Damon '14, also of the English Department, he recently spent several months studying in Denmark on the American-Scandinavian Foundation and collecting material for "A Book of Danish Poems", which will be the first American anthology of modern Danish lyrics...
...case of the Scandinavian tour, for instance, the members of the group will be received by the American ministers in each of the three Scandinavian capitals. Mr. Lauritz Swenson, American Minister to Norway, has planned, in consultation with the head of the Department of Education of the Norwegian Government, an audience with King Haakon at his summer palace at Bygdo, a reception at the American legation, etc. Similar provisions will apply in the case of the tours to Great Britain, France, and Italy...