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...program of classical favorites-Schumann's Traumerei, the prison scene from Trovatore, the Intermezzo from Cavalleria. Then the violin was silent again. A buzz of surprised admiration from the gathered audience; a collection on the spot netted more than $50 for the sightless wanderer with the magic gift...
...music, for the Regent through his many troubles possesses the gift of song, is pleasant. Some of the hits are distinctly good, -- particularly the Crown Prince's philosophical "A Pretty Girl", --and most, are well sung. The tunes carry you back to the man who used to sing "Where the River Shannon Flows" as he beat rugs in the back yard. They are pretty and melodious, but while not holding them to be directly the cause of the War, it is no libel to say that one has only to hear them to understand the why of jazz...
David Belasco, wizard of the realistic stage, is about to sell his collections- artistic and otherwise. There is a work table of rosewood, gift to his mother from Edwin Booth; there is a cloak worn by Booth as Don Cesar de Bazan; a French harp once belonging to the Empress EugÉnie; Staffordshire ware, vessels, plates, figurines; European and Chinese porcelains; Chinese porcelain birds; Capo di Monte figurines; English, U. S., Bohemian glass; wood carvings; furniture from France, England, Italy; early textiles, brocades, needlework panels, cushions, banners; Chinese, Persian, Caucasian, Turkish rugs; arms and armor of all periods...
Lehman Hall was made possible by a gift of $200,000 which Mr. Arthur Lehman '94, a New York banker, made to the University last June. Mr. Lehman expressed a wish that the donation be used for the erection of a new University Administration Building...
...closing his announcement Bishop Lawrence said, "it is a source of satisfaction to us that this great gift in memory of a great business man should be for the advancement of chemistry through continuous research. With a chemical faculty that has won an international reputation and established the 'Harvard Methods' in European and American university laboratories hampered by utterly inadequate equipment, it is no stress of imagination to vision what this gift may mean to medecine, industry and science in the future. It is also a recognition of the essential unity of our campaign for the extension of the University...