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...four biggest groups in the U. S., held a great Sangerfest in St. Paul, Minn. The homeland cousins could hear it this time, for in St. Paul's Brick Auditorium were 25 microphones to pick up the night's singing and playing, send it to London, Stockholm, Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna. There were choruses of children, men and women, singing in groups as big as 6,000, in German, Swedish, Norwegian and English. From throughout the Northwest, 90 singing bands participated. Minnesota's dirt-farming Lieutenant Governor Henry Arens presided. Featured were Tenor Paul Althouse...
...Parsifal performances Arturo Toscanini conducted in Bayreuth last summer, he had no notion that he would ever be invited to conduct Toscanini's New York orchestra. In his 38 years the crinkly-haired, wiry little Russian has gone far. He has conducted in Moscow. Dresden, Berlin, Sofia, Oslo. Last year he was chosen along with British Basil Cameron to succeed hulking Alfred Hertz in San Francisco. Last week it was announced that he would conduct the Philharmonic-Symphony for four weeks next winter, after Toscanini finishes the season's first eight weeks, before German Bruno Walter arrives...
...understand there was a tree-planting at Oslo and that a street in Hamburg, my last post, is also being named after Washington...
When Lydersen is given a post office promotion over Berger's head, in deep chagrin Berger gets himself transferred to Oslo. After years of desperate loneliness he chums up with a man who turns out to be Rognaas, the only man ever to take his side. At the height of their intense friendship Rognaas confesses that he was one of the bandits; his story absolves Berger of any taint of cowardice. But Berger cannot tell on his friend, even to justify himself to the whole world. Instead, he hits on a plan to justify himself to Lydersen, his chief...
Figure Skating- Two eleven-year-old British girls, Megan Taylor and Magdalen Colledge, amused the crowd. The U. S. champion, Maribel Vinson, and Belgian Mme Yvonne de Ligne, did well. But the best girl figure skater in the world was still 19-year-old Sonja Henje of Oslo, Norway. Behind her, on the stand, sat her immense, red-faced father, Wilhelm Henje. He said nothing. Mrs. Henje, however, told their daughter what part of the ice to use, instructed her to keep her beady toque straight on her head. Attached to her dress, Sonja Henje had a rabbit...