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Five years ago last month a slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
Died. Oliver Peter Heggie, 57, Australian-born character actor of stage (Androcks & the Lion, The Truth About Blayds) and screen (The Letter, The Swan, The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu); of pneumonia; in Hollywood, a few days after completing the role of Dr. MacIntyre in the cinema, The Prisoner of Shark Island...
...chosen to spend most of his life quietly at home, Sibelius has been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition was his in abundance. Orchestras played his music in almost every music capital. In Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted Swan-white, Pohjola's Daughter, the tone poem Tapiola. For Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski chose the great Fourth Symphony. The New York Philharmonic played the Second, broadcast part of it to Finland. Sibelius, at 70, lives in a rambling country house in Jarvenpaa, some 30 miles from Helsinki. There he begins each...
Carroll J. Swan Memorial Lectures, consisting of an annual series of from one to three talks in the field of advertising, will be given in the School of Business Administration, it was announced yesterday by Dean Donham...
...lectures are made possible through a gift from the Advertising Club of Boston as a memorial to the late Colonel Swan...