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Sentinel. Journalists ejaculated last summer when Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett of several newspapers, notably the Rochester Times-Union, in the lush butter & egg, and grape juice counties of New York, reached far out and bought the Sentinel, largest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23). That twin town, that tobacco-boom town, must certainly be a "comer" if Frank Ernest Gannett was goin? in there with a newspaper, they thought. But either he was mistaken, or it was too fast a boom town for even Frank Ernest Gannett to keep up with, or he made a good turnover...
...friends of Mr. Phillips suggested he invite the President to his cinema exhibitions. Said he: "Nup, it's a private show!" He was a bachelor; for 40 years no woman crossed the threshold of his home. There is a story that once he loved the daughter of a Salem shipowner. She refused him, but later hinted that she had changed her mind. Said he: "So have I, Madam...
George Augustus Peabody '52, aged ninety-five, of Salem is the oldest living graduate of Harvard College, according to a list of the oldest living graduates of the college that was made up by the Harvard Alumni Directory and made public yesterday...
Standing firmly, foursquare, on the theory that English is the artistic medium for opera in the U. S. the Chicago Opera Company presented earlier this season Charles Wakefield Cadman's Witch of Salem, a U. S. opera sung in English (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the Company went even further, presented a German opera specially translated into English for its U. S. premiere: Tiefland, the tale of a villainous rich landowner in the Pyrenees, who has an unwilling young mistress. In the grand manner, she is rescued by a simple shepherd...
...Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...