Word: claire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Claude St. Clair Ogilvie...
Author's Pajamas? Lewis St. Clair, popular novelist, arose from his perfumed couch, par took of a frugal breakfast of spaghetti and vodka, and stepped out into the glare of his prominence. His 5,000,000 readers, of varying sexes and doubtful ages, gave little excited shivers and trained their opera glasses immediately upon him. For it is a characteristic of all readers that they would rather see an author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle...
...Boston; William Nahum Gates '24, of Elyria, O.; John Upham Harris '24, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; Murlin Glenn Hoover 2G.B., of Galesbury, III.; Stockton Kimball '24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Ernest Frederic Knauth Jr. '24, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles De Von La Follette 2G.B., of Thornton, Ind.; Clair Thomas Leonard '23, of Needham Heights; Charles Robert Paine '23, of Eagle Grove, Ia.; Kendall Bailey Rowell 2E.S., of Waltham; and Joseph Peter Wilson 2G.B., of Dothan...
...Monday, December 26, and that evening, in spite of unfavorable conditions, a large audience filled the hall for the second performance of the tour. Madame Helen Stanley, of the Chicago Opera Company, was the soloist, and gave a selection of six songs, being accompanied in "Panis Angelicus" by Clair Leonard '23 on the organ and George Brown '25 on the cello...
...familiar quartettes of Beethoven and Haydn received careful and intelligent performances; the former especially was rendered in perfect ensemble and spirit. Le Clair's charming sonata gave a taste of French Seventeenth Century music, which delighted the audience. In this selection the viola work of M. Artiere appeared to great advantage. Dohnanyi's quartet, romantic in its emotional content, seemed the favorite of those present, and by far was the most interesting work on the program, with its sustained chords and surging melody, freely Magyarian in technique and feeling...