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...Wells, British writer, tied himself to a literary tradition by announcing last week that his forthcoming book, Meanwhile, would carry illustrations executed by H. G. Wells. Some other writers who have made money with books illustrated by themselves have been Milt Gross, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Ernest Thompson Seton, Howard Pyle...
...Hendrik Willem van Loon, cartoonist-historian : "In Berlin, where I was last week endeavoring to sell the German rights to my picture-history America, I announced: 'Europe is poor, her art and literature are bunk and all she is thinking of is three square meals and a suit of clothes. . . . Europe thinks we have some magic formula. It is really only that we live and let live, whereas Europe lives and lets starve. . . . Europeans only read about Ford, Rockefeller, Edison, portable tea-tables, shoes and jazz records, and are convinced Americans do not have to work to enjoy life...
...public auditorium of which Portland, Ore., is proud, Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten last week led his symphony orchestra through an orgy of fantasy. A native of Portland, Dent Mowrey, had studied music in Paris, and in dreamy moments had idled over the lle de la Cité, whereon is the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Student Mowrey would enter the felted front doors, would sniff at the dank air, would think he could hear the paint cracking on the pictures. Outdoors, on the grey square, he would crane his head up at the rain-spouts, which old artisans had carved...
...ranked among the greatest conductor. Arturo Toscanini, (La Scala, Milan) unrivaled in ability to make an orchestra "sound"; Willem Mengelberg, (N. Y. Philharmonic) famed for the passionate warmth of his music; Paul Felix Weingartner, (Vienna) who loves the "classica"; Karl Muck, (Hamburg) noted for his tone coloring; Frederick Stock, who has made the Chicago Orchestra one of the three best in the world; Leopold Stokowski, (Philadelphia Symphony) the "virtuoso" among conductors: these men are widely considered to outrank...
Through the interest and generosity of Mrs. Frederic Shurtleff Coolidge, a recital of chamber music will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock, by the Elshuco Trio of New York. This trio, composed of William Kroll, violinist, Willem Winneke, violoncellist, and Aurelio Giorni, pianist, has been highly praised by the metropolitan newspapers for its performances in New York...