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...film) is five-year-old John Sheffield, son of English Actor Reginald Sheffield, who once had Noel Coward for an understudy. Starting out as a 4-lb. incubator baby, little Tarzan has been undergoing special, muscle-building courses of sprouts since he was two, learning to chin himself, perform athletic improbabilities and ignore fear...
...Hyde Park, Rev. Frank R. Wilson had his telephone disconnected to keep people from pestering him for seats at the service he will perform Sunday in St. James Episcopal ("the President's") Church, with presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church preaching the sermon. Rector Wilson declared that faithful past church attendance would now yield a dividend: regular worshippers would get seats, others would have to stand in the grounds outside. He also put churchmanlike perspective on all the hullabaloo. Said he: "We realize it is a great honor that our church will...
...said, "we have been somewhat frightened by the silence of our countrymen created by the lack of community or mass singing. . . ." To break the silence, President Ober had arranged for a "national chorus" of 950 voices. When this great choir trooped into Baltimore's Lyric Theatre to perform such easily negotiable gems as Ah, Love but a Day by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, it had to be placed in the orchestra seats while the audience sat on the stage. When part of the national chorus, transported to the World's Fair, reached the climax of the Federation...
Government. Soviets in Russia perform administrative functions roughly comparable to those of municipal councils, State legislatures, Congress, in the U. S. Originally committees formed in factories and towns when the Tsar's authority broke down, there are now 70,000 of them to whom delegates, not always Communist Party members, are elected by secret ballot in direct elections, but from candidates selected by the Communist Party. Over local Soviets are Soviets of townships, over them Soviets of regions, over them Soviets of the twelve national districts, nine "autonomous regions," 22 "autonomous republics" and eleven "constituent republics" into which...
...tonight's concert at Agassiz Theatre wind players of the Longy School faculty and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Mr. Elmer Schoettle at the piano will perform three unusually interesting selections: Beethoven's "Sonata for Horn and Piano" op. 17; the Brahms "Clarinet and Piano Sonata" op. 120, no. 2; and the Mozart "Quintet for Winds and Piano." The Mozart Quintet is a charming example of his later style, and the rather sombre Brahms Sonata, though occasionally heard in the arrangement for viola, is seldom played in the original version...