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...girl on horseback rode into Baton Rouge one day last week, driving nine head of cattle before her. She drove them into the campus of Louisiana State University and turned them over to the authorities. President James Monroe Smith of the University had announced that farm produce would be accepted in lieu of cash for tuition. She was Elena Percy, 17, of West Feliciana Parish. She wanted to be a freshman. She was accepted...
Behind scenes at the Paris Opera Comiqne Conductor Michel Steiman broke his baton in two, announced that he would direct no more operas in which Basso Feodor Chaliapin was performing. During intermission Chaliapin had undertaken to tell Conductor Steiman that he knew nothing about directing opera. Back on the stage, he berated a fellow-singer in such strong Russian that several of his countrymen left the theatre...
...Dedicated at Baton Rouge last week with the inaguration of Oscar Kelly Allen as Governor of Louisana (successor to Alvin Oliver King, acting Governor since Mr. Long went to the senate.) was the State's new $5,000,000 Capital with a 33-story tower, locally nicknamed "Huey Long's Silo...
Ruby Newman's first string orchestra under the baton of Ruby Newman himself will supply music for the occasion until two o'clock in the morning. Karl Adams, Jr. '33, J. M. Bradley '33, N. P. Hodge '33, E. F. Noyes '32, S. H. Stackpole '33, and G. B. Van Ness '33 will compose the dance committee...
...first of the "Pops" concerts, held every spring in Symphony Hall, which have found considerable popularity among Harvard students ever since their inception, will be held this evening at 8.30 o'clock, under the baton of Arthur Fiedler, veteran "Pops" conductor...