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George Bernard Shaw arose, last week, before a gathering of Art students in London. Said he: "The King of England is obliged to go to the Goodwood races, to the football cup ties and to shake hands with the players. But he is not expected to go to the Royal Academy. It would be a nine days' sensation if he made a practice of shaking hands with artists...
...anniversary, at a few minutes before 2 p. m., Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, C. Bascom Slemp, marched into the President's box at the ball park. The President smoked a cigar. Babe Ruth came to shake hands. The President threw out a ball and the game was on. Mrs. Coolidge kept a box score and yelled lustily; the President, not so lusty at first, perked up as the game went to an exciting finish. He was the first man to rise in the lucky seventh inning...
...that were and are no more have because short; and it has found no peace..Strange forebodings fill the air, portent of change and great upheaval. As, in its age-old way, in solitary musings, it sought a moment's observation of the Square, where it was wont to shake its head in self-approbation at the indications of decay the times give forth what glaring new construction stood there, thrown up like a mushroom in a day, to bar the time-worn path...
Luigi Golinelli, giant white-haired basso, whose locks are snowier than the fleeces of Sharon, whose voice could shake the walls of Gaza; Spartaco Morgia, dramatic tenor, with barrel chest and amber voice - a man like a hogshead of honey; Attilio Boschi, young baritone, who, it is declared, is destined to be "the second Scandiani"; the Rev. Antonio Grimaldi, basso at the Sistine Chapel for 16 years, a famed authority on ecclesiastical music; Eugenio Andriselli, adult male soprano and assistant organist at St. Peter's. In all, there are twelve singers. Their programs will include selections from -the religious...
...York Philharmonic Society has announced that Wilhelm Furtwaengler, famed German composer and conductor, will shake his baton before the Philharmonic orchestra this Winter. He is the second guest-conductor, to be heralded? Igor Sravinsky, Russian cacophonist, having been the first. He is fifth on the complete list of conductors. Willem van Hoogstraten will be in charge during the first half of the season and will be relieved by Willem Mengelberg. Henry K. Hadley (American) will conduct some native works...