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Hawked and Wonson of Dartmouth were the first man home in the Freshman race, while A.T. Throne, W.P. Tuttle, J.D. Light body, E.V. Clark, and F.L. Porter in third, fourth, sixth, eight, and tenth positions brought the victory for the Mikkola younger...
...College of Arms, were assumed to have something to do with the fact that there is no Prince of Wales. The immense revenues which previously went to the Prince of Wales from the Duchy of Cornwall now appertain to His Majesty, although when he first came to the Throne experts disputed weightily whether he retained the title Duke of Cornwall. It has also been arranged that military groups designated hitherto as "The Prince of Wales' Own" retain that designation and their bands continue to play their stirring march, God Bless The Prince of Wales...
...week an account of the education now projected for Her Royal Highness. According to the Sunday Times she will continue to study at home under Miss Crawford and other tutors because "there is the difficulty of choosing a suitable school without causing great jealousy." "Another Queen Elizabeth on the Throne," continued the Sunday Times, "will, in this complex modern world, have to have a deep knowledge of a variety of subjects that are not taught in ordinary girls' schools. . . . Princess Elizabeth will be gently led to the study of constitutional history and the British Constitution, and afterwards she will...
...years the conductor's stand in Philadelphia has been a throne for Leopold Stokowski. Last winter King Stokowski decided that he wanted more time for "research," more personal freedom than a conductor's routine duties permit. Result was that the Philadelphia Orchestra authorities had to choose another conductor for the bulk of this season, picked Eugene Ormandy, 36, pale, small, blond Hungarian who for the past four years has been leader of the Minneapolis Symphony...
Young Eugene Ormandy walked briskly into the Philadelphia limelight last week, hopped onto the Stokowski throne and in a determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell...