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...bright winter day in 1748, Benjamin Franklin staged an epochal picnic by the Schuylkill River. On the opposite bank were arrayed Leyden jars. Using the river for a conductor. Franklin electrically fired a pan of brandy. To his guests' amazement, a turkey was then electrocuted, cooked on an electrically turned spit over an electrically-lighted fire. After further experiments Franklin declared that electrocuted fowl "eats uncommonly tender...
Died, Ossip Salomonowitsch Gabrilowitsch, 58, famed Russian-born pianist, husband of Mark Twain's talented daughter Clara Clemens; since 1918 conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; after long illness; in Detroit...
TERCENTENARY CONCERT III. Boston Symphony Orchestra with a Chorus of Harvard University and Radcliffe College, Dr. Serge Kousevitsky, Conductor. Symphony Hall, Boston, 9.00 o'clock...
TERCENTENARY CONCERT II. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Serge Koussevitsky, Conductor. Sanders Theatre, 4 o'clock. Tickets will be supplied to Delegates and members of their families and their hosts; and to the Governing Boards, Professors, and Associate Professors of the University, and the ladies accompanying them...
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Serge Koussevitsky, Conductor. Symphony Hall, 9 o'clock. Symphony Hall is on Massachusetts Avenue and Hunt Street in Boston, and may be reached by any street car going east on Massachusetts Avenue from Harvard Square or by subway, changing at Park Street to a Huntington Avenue car. Street car and subway conductors will holler on arrival...