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...Organgrinder on the same basis. Neither Ignace Paderewski nor an organ- grinder (with monkey) annoys the American Federation of Musicians. But the fact that the law makes no distinction between them is distressing, because it harms business. Representatives of the musicians' union point out that "saxophone strugglers, trombone contortionists, bass drummers and French horn oompahs" have been admitted into the U. S. as "artists," thereby flooding the market for musicians and reducing the wage minimum, much as was the case when steel laborers were imported from Europe in former years...
...Bass was born in Indiana, It was called his native home...
...associated with columned statistics, inanimate commodities and worried relief work. It postulated the pursuit of fish as a right rendered inalienable to "all men (and boys)" by the Declaration of Independence. It considered the mysteries and incantations of fishing, from spitting on angleworm segments to affixing trout cosmetics and bass liniments. It dwelt on piscatorial beatitudes in a manner that quickly revealed Mr. Hoover as twice the fisherman Calvin Coolidge is said to be, and in a style that revealed Mr. Hoover as a reader of Poet Edgar Guest and probably other standard authors...
...will deny that towering Feodor Chaliapin is an imposing actor, an irreproachable singer of opera. Likewise, many have found him imperiously temperamental. Last week as the sardonic, demonic Mephistopheles of Faust he poured out his ruddy bass to the burghers, dames and daughters of Vienna in the Vienna Opera House. But frowns of annoyance danced on his brow; he found the time too slow for his impetuous taste. Over the bobbing heads of the first violins he glared meaningfully at Conductor Karl Alwin, tried vainly to force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms...
Soprano Leonora Corona of Dallas, Soprano Mildred Parisette of Philadelphia, Mezzosoprano Margaret Bergin of Pater son, and Bass-baritone Fred Patton of South Manchester, Conn., are the other U. S. natives...