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...responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture polish to autographed manuscripts of Mozart's Magic Flute and Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony...
...choice of Gilbert Murray for the premier occupant of Harvard's chair of poetry. Its novelty can in no way mar its worth. Yet only by sincere community of interest and clarity of vision can the University develop and continue that tradition to the fullest glory of its man fest potentiality...
...subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week closed its hearings on prohibition, and so a great talk fest came to an end. So much of a propaganda matter was it for both sides, and so little immediate political interest had the hearings, that it was even doubtful whether a report would be made summarizing the "evidence...
...Story hinges upon war regarded as an agapemone, a lust fest. To focus this notion there is Sylvia Tietjens. To contrast war with quiescent civilization there is Christopher Tietjens of Groby, her husband. Both are extreme types, impossible in life unless recent English divorce cases were toned down in the newspapers...
Rotund and rollicking, dour and dignified, thin and thoughtful, the mature members of the U. S. Seniors' Golf Association foregathered at Rye, N. Y., for their annual fest. Not one was there but had spanned 55 years; some had seen 65, some 70, some 75, some 80. When the last score had been totted up in the national senior championship, Claude M. Hart of Boston and Henry S. Redfield of Hartford were found to -be tied at 161 for the 36 holes. They agreed to meet later and have...