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...program follows: Military March No. 2 Schubert-Casella Suite "From Holberg's Time" Grieg Intermezxo from "Goyescas" Granados "Sadko," Tone Poem Rimsky-Korsakoff "Ball Scene" and "March to the Scaffold from the Fantastic Symphony Berlioz The Swan of Tuonela Sibelius "Pacific 231," Orchestral Movement Honegger Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
Representative William S. Vare, slush-tainted Senator-elect from Pennsylvania, made his swan song and was roundly cheered by the Republican side...
...swan battalion a guard of 600 soldiers has been maintained, with swan-priests and swan-caretakers swelling the number of swan-attendants to 1,043. Daily these pampered birds waddled forth, led by a cream-colored First Swan, between lines of soldiers. For an hour the road along which the swans waddled was blocked to other traffic. Then they waddled into their sacred pool, swam like 300 small white clouds serenely on the waters, quacked, splashed, fought, cohabited and waddled back at eve to their holy swan house...
...this continued until last week. Then the Maharaja, Col. His Highness Sir Hari Singh* shrewdly announced that to honor 300 of his "favorite" courtiers he would present to each a sacred swan. By this means the Hindu clergy, who had absolutely refused to let the swans be done away with, were disarmed. The swan battalion and its 1,043 retainers were clipped from the budget. But in the princely houses to which the swans were sent there was wailing...
Last week Thomas Walter Swan, Dean of the Yale Law School since 1916, announced that he would accept President Coolidge's appointment as Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Second District (Connecticut, New York, Vermont). He succeeds the late Henry Wade Rogers, who was Dean of Law at Yale (1903-16) until his own appointment as judge. The Second Circuit Court happens also to be the part-time seat of another one- time distinguished Dean of Law, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stone (Columbia University, 1910-24), assigned as Supreme Court Justice to that territory...