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...else. The plot I shan't attempt to explain; it involves something about a dream, which takes the place of the real life of the characters, and something about a man who goes back and lives his life over, thereby being able to predict stock crashes and do other uncommon things. It is lively enough to watch, at least if you like the great Tracy; and the antics of snake-hips Karen Morley should entertain those renegades who won't listen to Doctor Worcester...
...Coolidge Foundation. Currently in the U. S., with few engagements to fill, are such top-notch quartets as the Musical Art, New York, Gordon, Roth. But Mrs. Coolidge is earnestly devoted not only to the highest music but to "international exchange of culture." Last week's Festival featured uncommon-run composers like Cimarosa (The Secret Marriage, sung by Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music). Schonberg, Paul Hindemith, Bohuslav Martinu, Gustav Strube. The Busch Quartet played a "first any where" of Pizzetti and" a "first in the U. S." of Busch himself. This week Busch & Serkin were to play...
...uncommon for birds to do this, and they will weaken and eventually kill themselves by it. We have had a cedar waxwing and a California towhee beat against our windows in this way, and in each case stopped it promptly by placing a piece of cardboard over the part of the pane where the bird saw its image Otherwise the bird will keep the struggle up until it drops. My brother-in-law tells me he sometimes finds blood on the sill at his country home in Los Gatos where towhees have beaten themselves insensible during his absence...
...market dwindled. Many an author who, in 1930, could sell all he could write -perhaps 100,000 words a month-at 3? a word, is now lucky to sell one story a month at 1?. Among headliners, incomes of $10,000 to $20,000 a year were not uncommon three years ago. Few today can earn $5,000. For the rank & file of writers the figure is less than half that...
Sixty years ago Cambridge's chief drawing-card for tourists was its historical points of interest, for "in many places may still be seen the earthworks of the Continental Army, erected during the Revolutionary War." Stampedes of cattle were apparently not uncommon, for the writer says "Harvard Square is a sort of halfway point between the two great cattle markets of Boston." While the cattle were being driven from one market to the other, the herders would make a half at the Square to water their charges at the town pump...