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Unless an opera conductor blatantly offends, the average U. S. audience pays him scant attention, lets the general excellence of a performance go unmarked or attributes it to individual singers. Hence, last week, friends of Conductor Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan Opera Company were pleased to hear of homage paid him in Philadelphia, where he appeared three times as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he imparted to taxing symphonic programs the same glancing, theatric charm that has characterized his best performances at Manhattan's opera house...
...tents. A few were outdoors strolling nervously about their ready-packed gear and baggage. A smoke of frost was on the harbor, where their bark, the City of New York, was soon to arrive, to take them away from their 13 months and 25 days of bleakness. Talk was scant...
...short stretch, losing it to Fox, who was closely followed by Cobb. On the last lap, with Cobb leading, Levering had the misfortune to snap the string of his trunks. Patterson, however, came forward and matched strides with the Crimson runner, finally breaking ahead to win by a scant four yards. Fox surprised all by uncorking a fine sprint which brought him ahead of Levering and into third place at the finish. The time was slower than expected, being clocked...
...Hormone. The female procreative apparatus secretes a complex chemical called for want of a special name the female sex hormone. The hormone is carried by the blood throughout the body. It is essential to a woman's health. It gives women their feminine characteristics. Its lack or scant production causes physiological irregularity, often sterility. Women create more of it while they are pregnant than at other times. It becomes available in relatively large quantities in the amniotic fluid and placenta...
...three previous contests of the winter campaign in which these two aggregations clashed have found the crimson-clad skaters emerging victorious, but each time only by the scant margin of one goal. The initial engagement was a 4 to 3 overtime affair and the second game resulted in a 2 to 1 victory for the University team. Some ten days ago these two combinations faced each other once again and the final count was, 4 to 3. Such a series of defeats is bound to put any team on a fighting edge, and the Clubmen are determined to seize this...