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...burly Professor J. (for John) Duncan Spaeth is famed among Princeton men as the loudest lecturer on the faculty, the most tumultuous impersonator of Shakespearean characters, Princeton's longtime crew coach (1910-25), half-brother of "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth. Last week new, small University of Kansas City ran up great telegraph tolls persuading Professor Spaeth to become its first president...
...amateur singing in close harmony come to be associated with barber shops? Dr. Sigmund Spaeth, author of Barber Shop Ballads, points out that in "ancient" days barber shops were provided with lutes or citterns with which waiting patrons could occupy themselves. Also he suggests that "perhaps a barber shop chord is, after all, merely one which mutilates or dresses up some conventional formula of music." Negro Scholar James Weldon Johnson recalls that all barbers in the South used to be black, that every shop had a quartet whose members passed their time experimenting with novel harmonies, sometimes to the accompaniment...
What slim, ascetic Dr. Sigmund Freud is to Psychoanalysis, bald, beefy Major Clifford Hugh Douglas is to Social Credit. The Major, a Scottish engineer, a graduate of Cambridge and a cousin of Lord Weir, once worked for Westinghouse in India, now has his swank abode in London and contrives to rent his ideas for fat fees. In 1934 the Alberta Government which was thrown out last week paid him $30,000 to go to Calgary and expound views which they proceeded to ignore but which fired High School Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them...
Dining in a Chatham, Ont. hotel, Composer Sigmund Romberg took a fancy to the hotel harpist, asked her to play Deep in My Heart from his Student Prince. The harpist did not know it. Could she play his Only a Rose? No. His Auf Wiedersehen? No. Composer Romberg ripped off his collar, autographed it, thrust it at the harpist, finished his dinner collarless...
...This summer's repertory: Teresina, Rio Rita, Madame Sherry, The Chocolate Soldier, Good News, The Vagabond King, Sunny, The Beloved Rogue, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Desert Song, Roberta, Lady in the Window, a world première by Sigmund Romberg...