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...Philharmonic Orchestra, with its second program, fitted an exquisite bit into its season's mosaic. Mme. Wanda Landowska was soloist, played to Josef Willem Mengelberg's accompaniment the Mazort Concerto in E flat, the Finale of his Harpsichord Concerto in D. Critics sat enthralled, spent their dearest words, said nothing worthy of so unique an artist...
Maintaining that the causes of war lay in commercial and racial jealousies, F.O. Darvall advocated machinery for removing these causes of dispute, rather than a pacifistic relinquishment of the means of defense! "I take it that my opponents would have the American Navy abolished. That would be a capital bit of news to take back to the British Admiralty...
Queen. The extent of her surprise may be gauged, therefore, when she was introduced to a perfectly ordinary woman dressed in perfectly ordinary clothes, albeit a bit out of fashion. Not only did Queen Mary not wear a crown, nor her gorgeous coronation robes of state (although a priceless rope of pearls was around her neck and two fascinating diamonds glittered in her ears), but she showed every evidence of the charm that one expects in a human woman...
Said the New Orleans States: "In Budapest a musician was so enraged by the chatter of a woman in the audience that he ran amuck and bit a policeman. But he made a great mistake. He should have chewed the ear of the offending woman. Had he done so he would have established a precedent that might still the feminine bazoo during a musical performance...
...Repertory production is considerably above the average one expects on a repertory stage. The set which served for all three acts was attractive. The acting, though often a bit stiff, was on the whole perfectly satisfactory...