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Branford P. Millar '35 has been selected by the Hander and Haydn Musical Society of Boston to sing the "bull bass" part in the annual Christmas presentation of the Messiah...
Staged first before Tsar Alexander III in 1893, lolanthe had its U. S. premiere only last week. It was revived for the New York Musicians Emergency Fund in the outdoor theatre of Sleepy Hollow Country Club, at Scarborough. Soprano Lola Monti-Gorsey as lolanthe, Bass-Baritone Vasily Romakoff as the king, easily outdid a strident chorus of autumn katydids, sang their roles with grace and finesse. Guest of honor was sixtyish. grey-haired Margaret Eichenwald, who was coached for the role of lolanthe at its premiere by Tchaikovsky, now teaches voice at the Vocal Studio in Manhattan. The other...
...disdainfully the "exciting experience" of Mr. Holzman of Cincinnati, who reports in these columns (TIME, Aug. 21) how he was roused from his absorption in TIME by the whirring sound of an unwinding reel and forgot all else as he "found and finally landed" a mere 3½-lb. bass. I happened to be reading TIME and Mr. Holzman's letter during a shark-hunt off Lewes, Del., when I was roused by a shout from one of our party: "I got one!" He was Herluf Provensen, who was presidential announcer for NBC out of Washington until he became...
...about all day, reading, resting. The third day, wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain Gray: "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they do for a plumber." That night the Nourmahal cruised off down the coast to land the President back in Washington day after Labor...
...Errett Lobban Cord, who last fortnight added ships to his transportation empire (TIME, Aug. 14), last week annexed another province-taxicabs. His loyal, hardbitten Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning quietly announced that his boss had obtained control of $4,000,000 Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., largest U. S. company building taxis exclusively. As is almost always the case when Cord Corp. buys up a company. Mr. Cord stepped in as chairman, Lou Manning went on the executive committee...