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Samuel Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, created a sensation by a speech before the New Orleans Association of Commerce. He brought 500 business men to their feet cheering when he declared: " Samuel Gompers says dire things will happen if we have open shops. My God! Have any of you gentlemen ever seen Samuel Gompers? Will you tell me what there is to be afraid...
Colonel Ham told us, "and he was so surprised and pleased that he actually liked me." At this point Stephen Leacock broke in, violently. "I'd rather have met a relative of Dickens' than any crowned head in Europe," he insisted. Dickens, it seems, is his literary god. Shakespeare? Oh, yes? Well and good? but Dickens! Why? For the reason that the humor of Stephen Leacock persists because it is based on a deep understanding of the human mind and a sympathy for human frailty. If only more of our present day writers would turn their attention to the picturing...
...hotel come a nouveau riche family from the frequently-pulverized Middle West, accompanied by a "French maid". Let us explain the character: the exterior finish is by Vivaudou, Inc., the housing by Behrens (courtesy of Louis Silvers) but underneath is the one-hundred- per-cent, red-blooded, honest-to-God frame and speaking voice of H. N. Pratt '24, and our personal prediction is that if he doesn't make a name for himself in the performance in Boston, New York, Baltimore and Washington, it is no fault of the Pratts. Anyhow, one thing leads to another, one act leads...
...aspired to flight in the air ever since he was created. In pagan mythology it was left to the gods to sail through space, and their soaring was looked upon with awe. Later the Valkyrie took up the fashion where Mercury left off, and still the people looked on it with awe. Finally Leonardo da Vinci, a mortal, decided that men could fly as well as gods and birds. To his endeavors people turned a deaf ear and a superstitious frame of mind, alternately calling him god and devil. He was classed with the witches and their broomstick flying machines...
...tickets may still be had at Symphony Hall. Prices range from one dollar to two dollars and a half. He sishoia are sold at the Glee Club office in the Munic Building. The program follows:. 1 Integer Vitae, Flemming Arise, O Ye Servants of God, Sweelinck Laudate Dominum, Converse The Harvard Glee Club 2 Aria from "Der Freischutz", Weber Miss Hempel 3 Deux Choeurs, Ropartz Tout vient a poinct qui peult attendre Les fourriers d'Este sont venus Hall, Goddess Ascending, from the "Birth of Venus", Faure (Soprano solo by Miss Hempel) Dirge for two Veterans, Holst Bedouin Song, Foote...