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...these are the forms of athletics that our schools teach boys. . . . Tennis is the real major sport.'" Wilhelm: "Irresponsible American newspapers talked of a breach between me and my bride when she left for Germany. The New York Times truthfully reports: 'There are, indeed, periods when the pair are on very affectionate terms.' " Pat Collins, M. P.: "I took part in a spirited debate in the House of Commons over a bill to prevent cruelty in training animals. Sir F. Banbury described breaking horses. I told about my 30 lions. Mr. Groves told about training fleas. Some...
...discordant moderns. Their program for last week embraced such different names as Palestrina, Pergolesi, Archangelsky. The director is Father Finn, choirmaster of New York's great church of the Paulist order. He is a fine, genial fellow, a learned musician and, one guesses, a lively hand with a pair of boxing gloves. He formed the chorus in the normal process of training a church choir of boys and men, and has schooled them to a high degree of expertness in the rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church...
...twentythree, however, she had made her first successful effort as a writer. She sold a story. From then on in the field of journalism and of fiction she has been progressing steadily. For most of the year the Norrises live on a ranch in California. What an amazing pair they must be to be able to exist in the same house! One writer in a family is difficult enough, I hear; but not so with the Norrises. They not only work well in the same house, but they help each other. Apparently their methods of procedure are quite different...
Anton Lang, who will visit this country with 100 other actors of the Oberammergau Passion Play, earned 27,000 marks after rehearsing eleven months. Shoes cost 50,000 marks a pair, with other living costs in proportion. The players are forced to their American tour by their financial straits. They have again refused a $1,000,000 movie contract...
...Chicago a pair of twins were christened Adam...