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...composer of unquestioned merit was also brought to light oh this occasion. He is Alexander von Zemlinsky, an Austro-Czecho-Slovakian. His Third, or "Lyric", Symphony was performed; its seven long movements are all built around a single leading motif: the theme of "a man bent on conquest and adventure, to whom love is but an episode in a life of combat and struggle." Zemlinsky used a baritone voice and many kettledrums to bring home with emphasis his dominant idea...
...west in a race around the world Orville Wright was decorated on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of his first flight. Reports of the frequent breakdowns of the fliers and news of the almost fatal adventures of the American leader indicate all too clearly, however, that man's conquest of the air is far from complete. In view of this conclusion, Major Hensley's prediction that before 1927 because of inadequate appropriations "we will have nothing to fly with" is of more than passing interest...
...marvelous humor, wistful whimsicality and delicious irony of the text have been masterfully transferred into the music. Children enjoy most the passages which eloquently describe the "beamish boy's" conquest of the Jabberwock...
...clock tonight at the Harvard Club of Boston, there will be a meeting of the Harvard Travellers' Club, at which Mr. H. B. de V. Schwab will speak on "The Conquest of Mt. Clemenceau". The speaker will give an account of two expeditions to Mt. Clemenceau, one of the highest peaks of the Canadian Rockies, and the highest one to be climbed without the aid of Swiss guides. The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...Life of Christ" should have attained such heights of popularity in one scant year of existence is as revealing in one way as la the mention of "The Virginian," which is twenty-two years old, to the exclusion of any of Booth Tarkington's work; for example, 'The Conquest of Canaan," or "The Gentleman From Indiana." Dyed in the wool conservatives, however, may be cheered by the fact that neither "Jurgen" nor "Women in Love" were so much as mentioned...