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Science has succeeded in photographing tones. Now that it is known to possess weight, the physicist will find no rest until he has tabulated the specific gravity of all the sounds from a milligram bird's twitter to a hundred-ton football cheer. Modern ingenuity has learned to "can" music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POUNDING MUSIC | 11/22/1924 | See Source »

In their hour of direst need, it is fortunate that a new "Marseillaise" is at hand, both music and words ready for instant use. But all things work together for good to them that serve the good cause. Printed in the November "American Mercury", thousands of copies will be broadcast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1776 PER CENT AMERICANISM | 10/28/1924 | See Source »

The dances, it is said, were never supported by the older parishioners. When, last Easter, A. Van Home Stuyvesant went to inspect the grave of his ancestor, Peter Stuyvesant (TIME, June 23), he and his family departed without leaving their individual checks for $900 at the Church. The eurythmic ritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In the Bouwerie | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

The "Benedict Monument to Music," bequeathed to the city of Providence by William Curtis Benedict and called "an architectural melody in white marble," has been opened in Roger Williams Park. It has a seating capacity of about 30,000. The elaborate dedication program included Marie Sundelius, soprano of the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Providence | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

The Significance. The book is a faery epic, astonishingly perfect. Its creatures will be recognized by Arthur Rackham and others who have traced the fairy folk. Its uncertain twilights are those that Yeats and Fiona Macleod and James Stephens have peered through. James Branch Cabell, who well knows the uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faery Epic* | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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