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...spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later the Gurre-Lieder had a big success in Vienna. People were impressed by the enormous chorus. They liked the tender love motifs. But by the time Schönberg was on the way to becoming a popular composer he had lost his taste for conventional harmonies. He started working...
...Rangers moved on to Chicago to play the Black Hawks. For roughness, that game made the Toronto affair look like a tea party. Thirteen players took turns in the penalty box, mostly for tripping and roughing. Both sides played recklessly brilliant offense, but the goaltending by Chicago's Chuck Gardiner and New York's Andy Aitkenhead was more brilliant. Of innumerable smashing attacks only one got through for a goal-against the Rangers...
...Thirteen Harvard men have been retained in the trials for the male parts in the coming production of the Wellesley "Barnswallows" dramatic club, it was announced last night. Trials were held Saturday and Monday in Phillips Brooks House by the Harvard Dramatic Club. This will be the second performance of the play, "The Dragons Teeth," by the English playwright Shirland Guin, in America...
...Thirteen leading scientists have been appointed by the Board of Overseers to four committees which will visit the Engineering School, and three other scientific departments. The members have been chosen "because of their interest in the success and usefulness of the department to be visited...
Holy Cross chalked up thirteen first downs to the Crimson's six, and in rushing, Harvard gained only 48 yards in comparison with the 148 of the Purple ball carriers. In the forward passing department, the same story is true for Harvard completed but four of the 18 aerials attempted, while the visitors managed to connect on eight of their 16. Five of the Crimson's uncompleted passes fell into the waiting arms of Holy Cross secondaries...