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...Princess Marie José, sole daughter of Their Majesties, performed upon the cello, last week, before a most select and royal audience. Next day loyal Brabant news organs "learned" that H. R. H.'s performance was "in the highest degree creditable." But scurrilous sheets of the separatist Flemish persuasion "wondered" if H. R. H. does not run through sonatas "rather too often, to the accompaniment of M. Eugène Ysaye, the fiddler...
...Polish Sejm [Parliament], which I call a prostitute, purposely framed the Constitution so that the greatest shame which savage, ignorant brains could devise would be placed on the nation's most popular man. . . . The President of Poland is not permitted even to select his valet or his maid, much less his Ministers. No one would think of treating a servant in the infamous manner in which the Constitution handles the President...
...Select competing couples with an eye to racial distinctions; a dance marathon which included an Irish team, a Polish team, a Chinese team, a Jewish team, a Lithuanian team, a Finnish team, a bearded Russian team, a Negro team, etc., etc. Grandstand sections could be roped off for the supporters of each; in each grandstand section the management would hire a band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon...
...able musicians and headed by famed Walter Johannes Damrosch, sat in Vienna last week. The jury wished to award a $10,000 prize to someone for the best musical composition in the vein of Franz Schubert, whose centennial the Viennese are this year celebrating. If possible, they wished to select a satisfactory completion, by the hand of some contemporary, of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...
Recognizing the seething ferment in American education today, "Better Schools" is an attempt to select for the layman and unspecialized teacher or school administrator some of the more outstanding and successful experiments, and to present them in a way that will help one to understand and profit by America's new school ways. They are remarkably successful in a non-technical way, and parents as well as educators of all ranks might profit by reading the material they present...