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...Rutherford 1Ed, of Tarentum, Pennsylvania; Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship, Roy Arthur Price 1Ed, of Chicago, Illinois; and six Faculty Scholarships--Eugene Burns GEd, of Los Angeles, California; Raven Orwell Dodge 1Ed, of Lowell; Roy Arthur Price 1Ed., of Chicago, Illinois; John Watson Murray Rothney 2Ed, of Fairhaven; Herbert Lewis Swan, Jr. 1Ed., of Winthrop; and Howard Carleton Seymour 2Ed., of Watertown, Connecticut...
...following program under the direction of Arthur Fiedler will be presented at the Pops tonight beginning at 8.30 o'clock. 1. Sambre et Heuse March Ganne 2. Euryanthe Overture Weber 3. H. Symphony, allegretto schetzando Beethoven 4. Swan Lake, Suite Intermission Tchaikowsky 5. Pacific 2-3-1, Symphonic movement Honegger 6. Valse Triste Sibelius 7. First Hungarian Rhapsody Intermission Liszt 8. Roses from the South, waltz Strauss 9. Humoresque Dvorak 10. Aragonaise, from the "Cid" Massenet
...first extended study of the "Swan of Lichfield" sets forth a remarkably interesting and accurate account of the literary life in England under George III. The book contains delightful glimpses of the customs, conventions, and people of that day. We see young John Andre, bashful but enterprising, set off to America where he is later executed as a spy. When the "Swan" writes denunciatory poems to General Washington, the American president sends a special officer in reply to assure her that he had tried to save Andre and had offered him eagerly in exchange for Nathan Hale...
...Captain Cook receive less consideration from Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar note pass across the background of "The Singing Swan." Boswell, to whom she gave much scandal about the great doctor, Garrick, Reynolds, Coleridge, and Adam Smith...
...Singing Swan", while it suffers from a popular standpoint by its scholastic detail and consequent lengthiness. Is done in the soft, mellow style of "Jane Eyre" and was as the cause with a pleasant image of the "Picturesque Century of brocade and periwig, sedan chair, Chippendale furniture and early Wedgewood...