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...issue of TIME, an error was made in the article regarding the Annual High Jinks of San Francisco's Bohemian Club at Bohemian Grove. TIME reported the holding of the "Burial of Care." Bohemians, world over, will recognize this as an error...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: At the Bohemian Club "High Jinks" in Bohemian Grove, Calif. Herbert Clark Hoover made his first speech since his retirement. Said he: "There is much talk about Codes, but nothing has been done about a Code for ex-Presidents. So I have solved that myself. I've reduced my hours to nothing and doubled my wages. That is perhaps something off the minds of the present Administration." He explained how he spends his time in retirement: "I get up fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto...
Last week-end Bohemian Grove celebrated its "High Jinks." The 32nd annual play, The Legend of Hani, based on an Indian myth, was written by Playwright Julius Cravens, set to music by Henry Hadley, onetime conductor of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. It relates the efforts of the first man, Hani, after creation of the world by the Sun-Father and Moon-Mother, to subdue the other creatures of earth and find Tala, his predestined mate...
Under the redwoods 1,200 Bohemians (including Herbert Clark Hoover) & guests sat on rough-hewn logs for the first & last production of The Legend of Hani in one of the Grove's two open air theatres. While Composer Hadley conducted the orchestra through his own score, Bohemians heard Baritone John Charles Thomas of the Metropolitan Opera sing the title role...
Origin of the Grove plays goes back to one Joseph D. Redding, San Francisco attorney who died last year. He proposed and wrote the first play, The Man of the Forest. In 1911 his Natoma was set to music by Victor Herbert, produced in Philadelphia with Mary Garden and John McCormack.' The best western composers have contributed scores for the Grove plays and Bohemians aver that much beautiful music is thereby lost to the world, as the plays are seldom given public performance...