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...Vienna Mandolin Orchestra Society gave a concert in Berlin to a crowded auditorium. The concert was described as exquisite. It is the purpose of the Society to demonstrate that the mandolin, far from being necessarily only a toy, is a serious, dignified and important instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which...
...Premier recovered in so far as he was able to sit up and toy with half a grape fruit. The paralysis has entirely left his throat, leaving his power of speech free. His words were: " So this is Russia...
Much interest is taken in England in the problems of air gliding. People on a London common saw a strange sight-an elderly gentleman playing with a toy aeroplane. He was Dr. E. H. Hankin, M. A., D. Sc., author of Animal Flight (a book dealing with the science of living flight), and he was experimenting with a model glider...
...from that which she made in the second scene! What a rich increase of fervor and devotion in this offering now! All the littleness, all the puniness of man, is compassed in this one heartrending appeal to save a Son--an appeal not granted. The dramatic rise from the Toy scene to Man's curse, uttered on the death of his son, is swift and of undeniable power. Here the dramatist is at his height--and the actors were not far behind...
...work with a big wheel, something like one with which a boat is steered. There are an infinite number of old roulette wheels hung along each wall together with boomerangs. Boomerangs were used to hit the "African Dodger" instead of baseballs in the old days. Then there is a toy ship for the kiddies, and sometimes there are moving pictures. As you come in you sit down on a chair, and some of the chairs are made with only three legs so that you often have just the surprise of your life. Out back of this pleasure palace, for those...