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...Watch and Ward Society. Since time immemorial the Boston Common has been the high domain and secure retreat of the prolific pigeon. For years these delightful little feathered friends of men have lived and died, loved, wooed and wed, eaten our peanuts, gotten under our feet, and played the "scenic" role, protected not persecuted. Now it seems they are grown too numerous for their visible means of support and are doomed to death by starvation or a worse-than-death existence with enforced birth control. The method is simple. Once lured within specially constructed shelters wherein they will be persuaded...
Today at 8.30 o'clock. H. W. Poor will give an illustrated lecture entitled "Scenic America". His talk will deal primarily with the National Parks, Grand Canyon, and the Indian Detour. The lecture is made possible through the courtesy of the Santa Fe Railway System...
Last week, Governor Clement Calhoun Young of California cried: "Save the beaches!" In a newspaper article he declared that oil interests were menacing the "spectacular charm," "the permanent scenic and spiritual enrichment," of the littoral playground of Californians and their visitors. Let oil-drilling be remitted, asked Governor Young, until means could be found to prevent the defacement and pollution of scenery whose value is "unmeasurably greater than the value of all the oil. . . . " Governor Young's article appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner, owned by Oil man William Randolph Hearst...
...Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...
...Rosing is a Russian, steeped in the artistic notions that have made the Moscow Art Theatre. For him the ensemble is the thing. There can be no such thing as a "star." For him opera at its best must be the synchronization of all the arts-orchestral, vocal, dramatic, scenic, decorative. On such a basis, he trained the Eastman players, brought them last spring to Manhattan as the Rochester American Opera Company, won the acclaim of the critics and, at the end of a week's run, was turning customers away. Shortly after, Rosing and a handful...