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Yesterday's sleet storm seemed to put increased vigor into Lowell House's monthly bell-bedlam. Caring neither for sleet nor student, Arthur T. Merrit, Eliot House music tutor, climbed to his tower station accompanied by several assistants. Two of the merrymakers stood under the 14-ton bass bell and another at the chains and footpedal operating the remaining 16 bells...
...goes. Generation after generation of American voters, falling for the same old stuff Barnum gave them in the Greatest Show on Earth. There's a sucker born every minute, and at twenty-one he becomes a voter. America is like a bass drum, big and noisy. Step right inside, folks, On with the show...
Radio will spread great music again this winter. Decade ago few children knew the difference between a cello and a double bass. And many of their elders were equally ignorant. Last week six million listened to "Papa" Walter Damrosch and his National Broadcasting Orchestra, heard him talk about instruments, learned to understand their use. As patrons of music, big industry has supplanted the individual Maecenas. General Motors plans to spend $300,000 on its Sunday night broadcasts and Ford has outlined a budget almost as big. Ambitious tour of the season will come in the spring when the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...There were loud voices, there were louder glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing faces, and cracking smiles. There were great cascading bouquets, there were wall flowers and pansies. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud of a bass drum. There were broken hearts, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was a moonlite terrace, there were also chaperons. There were long embrassing conversations; there were short embracing silences. There were those who cut in; there were those who, most unfortunately, did not. There was an evening mist; there were...
Embryonic instrumentalists, toting everything from bass viols to disappearing rabbits, will file into the Music Building this and tomorrow evening from 7 to 8 o'clock. There they will "strut their stuff" before the heads of the five Instrumental Club organizations in an effort to prove themselves capable of entertaining Boston audiences, famed for their cold attitude toward everything theatrical...