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...program wound up with Victor Herbert's American Fantasy, a brass-band composition which galloped through The President's March, Way Down Upon the Swanee River, The Girl I left Behind Me, Dixie, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, and finally, as both band and audience rose as a man, The Star Spangled Banner...
...Hatted Tragedian of Song and his Jazzical Clowns finally came on, and we were doubly glad we had come. Who can describe the heart-rending pathos in Lewis's brand of jazz? My roommate, who has just taken Music Divisionals, says that the pianissimo Ted gets out of his brass could show the symphony people something. The Tragedian and the Clowns were running true to form last night, and even encored with Sally in our Alley and When My Baby Smiles at Me; when a Comedy Relief was brought in, like, we almost said, the drunken porter in Macbeth...
...anyone should ask me, I would say that Miss May Sinclair was the almost perfect English visitor to these shores-and this quite aside from the fact, or perhaps you may think because of the fact-that she is one of our finest living novelists. She came unheralded by brass bands, press agents, or agents of any sort. Such reporters and interviewers as wrote to make appointments with her she saw. The dignity of these meetings was admirably reflected in their published interviews, proving that the American reporter has, after all, respect for a fine mind and a becoming presence...
Class colors, a buffet luncheon, a brass band, and half a dozen informal baseball games were the feature of the Fathers and Sons annual reunion before the Princeton baseball game Saturday afternoon...
After lunch the party formed in order of classes, and headed by the brass band of 20 pieces, marches across Soldiers' Field with banners on high, to the two sections reserved for them on the third base line, where they were met by their wives and daughters...