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...granddaughters of Ogontz' chief benefactor, Philadelphia's Civil War Banker Jay Cooke, attended the school. It was when the Chestnut Street Female Seminary moved to Cooke's suburban estate, in 1883, that Ogontz came into being. The estate was named Ogontz after a celebrated Indian Chief from Putin Bay, Ohio, who often visited Cooke on his way to negotiate with the Government. The school took over the name, kept it when it moved again, in 1916, to its present quarters. Principal Sutherland explains: "He was a very good Indian...
...Main Line, rough & ready Wendell Willkie had become the rage. William H. Harman, vice president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, and head of the Pennsylvania Willkie-for-President Club, declared: "I regard this as a semi-religious movement and we are trying to get it on a revival basis." A Chestnut Hill lady wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer: "To my way of thinking the Lord has sent us Wendell Willkie...
People claim that no good swing exists in Boston. We deny this, while pointing to Jack Hill's outfit, playing at the Little Dixie over on Mass. Avenue. Despite the foolish economy of cutting the band to six pieces removing Eddie Hawley's fine bass and Bob Chestnut's trumpet work, the band still swings. High Diggs (piano) and Dave Chestnut (drums) "kick" right along while Bill Stanley's trumpet and Daniel Potter's excellent sax work are worth catching...
This has been a beautiful May day in Paris, with the horse-chestnut trees in blossom, and a rosy sunset over the Tuileries. Tragic splendor. Paris in magnificent. No nervousness, no panic. Paris waits in sad eagerness,. dramatic but sober expectation. The nation knows the danger, but knows, too, that it is fighting its won battle and the world's we are confident that the battle will become a victory. Goodbye, my friends. I do not say good-night. Tonight we cannot sleep...
...gourmand's fare. Music like Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," interesting harmonically but otherwise dull, the Brahms Fifth Hungarian Dance, and the unbreakable Blue Danube Waltz, are there for those who can still bear them. Of greater relish is the delightful fantasy "Fugue and Variations on Under the Spreading Chestnut-Tree" by Weinberger, one of the sensations of the past season. The ubiquitous Russians Moussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakoff are represented by the magnificent coronation scene from "Boris Godunoff," a rarity even on mid-winder programs, and the Wedding March from "Coq d'Or," a typically pleasant example of Rimsky...