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...written at Tobolsk. On Nov. 14, when Nikolai Lenin's dictatorship was six days old, Diarist Nicholas Romanov was still in ignorance of its existence and jotted placidly: "Today is the birthday of dear mama* and the 23rd anniversary of our marriage. At noon we heard prayers. The choir muddled and sang false, doubtless from lack of practice." Three days later the shattering news reached even Tobolsk. Nicholas the Last pondered well, then wrote: "It is disgusting to read in the papers what happened a fortnight ago in Petrograd and Moscow." Perhaps the true import of "what happened...
...Italian Ambassador, Signer Nobile Giacomo de Martino, with 60 countrymen, members of the Vatican Choir. The latter presented the President first with a collection of copper engravings of Vatican paintings, encased in tooled leather; second, with singing at the White House steps. Mrs. Coolidge listened from an upper window...
...Lyndon, her first fiction, made small stir; but with The Constant Nymph there was a great roar of approval from critics and gentle readers. At that time Author Kennedy was not long out of Somerville College, Oxford, where she sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famed Oxford Bach Choir. Author Kennedy dislikes games & most violent exercise, likes swimming, dancing (hornpipes or foxtrots), mountain climbing. Her husband is David Davies, onetime secretary to famed Herbert H. Asquith...
From Florence, Italy, last week press-agented with folio upon folio on the City of Flowers, on its musical heritage stretched to include Dante, Michelangelo & Amerigo Vespucci, came the Florentine Polyphonic Choir, gave its debut concert* in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
...Florentine Choir will give 60 concerts in the U. S. & Canada. The tour goes through New Jersey. Pittsburgh, the Middle West, up into Wisconsin, Minnesota, on to the Pacific Coast, back through the South, up into Canada by way of Michigan...