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...really sonorous send-off ASCAP had to wait till Sunday night. Then, on an hour-and-a-half, coast-to-coast program called "ASCAP Salutes Mutual," the composers broadcast a solemn Te Deum celebrating their first settlement with the chains...
...ignored college activities was felt to be in the offing. Among the organizations in line for such expansion was Phillips Brooks House. P.B.H. had long felt the need for students to act as paid contact men, working from twenty to forty hours a month in thirty-nine Greater Boston settlement houses, boys' clubs, and Y.M.C.A.'s. The prospect of N.Y.A. aid to pay these salaries was welcomed as a solution to a long-standing problem...
...authorities on a technical charge of illegal entry, Werra was sent to New York City, placed in the custody of the German consul on bond. He stayed in New York about a month, touring nightclubs, telling tall tales to bug-eyed and sympathetic ladies from the German settlement in Yorkville...
...dozen other dressed-up girls, and one boy, took their turns at the piano. Thus Manhattan's Greenwich House Music School exhibited, in a formal recital, what its piano department is doing for slum children. In the springtime, as their year closes, many of the 50-odd settlement music schools in the U.S. give concerts for friends and potential benefactors...
...with one pupil, one piano. Now headed by a lanky Uruguayan violinist, Enrique ("Hank") Caroselli, it has two remodeled Greenwich Village houses, teaches more than 600 children and adults. Fees for lessons in voice, violin, piano begin at 50?, are shaved or even waived for the needy. Like most settlement schools, Greenwich House is less interested in training professional musicians than in teaching music as an avocation. But it is proud-just as Chicago's Hull House is of Benny Goodman and Manhattan's Music School Settlement is of Pianist Ray Lev-of having produced one professional comer...