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Perhaps the most unusual item on the program is the first number by Madame Lili Boulanger, entitled "Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat". Madame Boulanger is the only woman who has ever won the "Prix de Rome", the most coveted prize of the Paris Conservatory of Music...
...handicapped with an appearance which, while preserving its youth with phenomenal tenacity, was never strictly beautiful. Her art was not one of interpretation. In stead of losing herself in a charac ter - Camille, for example - she used it simply as a mold in which to pour her own glowing vitality. She was born 78 years ago. Her father was French, her mother of mixed Dutch and Jewish origin. Her first great triumph came at the age of 22, as Cordelia in King Lear, at the Theatre Francois. Later, feeling her intense individuality cramped by the rooted traditions of the Francais...
Although the wedding of Prince Albert with Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is not to take place until April 26, wedding gifts are beginning to pour...
...particular. And having seen the evils of prescribed religious exercises, John Harvard omitted any such prescription in the bequest upon which Harvard College was founded. The alarm which many of the colonists felt at the thought of this "godless university" resulted in the foundation of Yale, intended to pour forth a stream of "untainted Calvinists". Since that time, according to a visiting Englishman of the nineteenth century, Yale men have always been horrified by the irreverence of Cambridge, while Harvard men inevitably regard the pious Elis as praying hypocrites...
Cooks who pour poison in the rice and slay...