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Then came the new music. After setting up his audience with two innocuous bits of Impressionism by a college teacher named Alfred J. Swan, Davison presented three of his own wonderful compositions. He sticks pretty close to the old from but is no slave to them, liberally sprinkling his Toccatas and Sonatina with folksy, jazzy elements. This results in coherent outlines that form the rich and varied content of the works. The reliance on structure can backfire, though, and the final section of his Introduction Chorale, Preclued, and Fugue was weighted down with dry academics. For an encore Davison played...
...Slave Girl assured me that women's wrestling is a highly competitive sport. "Those punches really hurt," she said...
...have often wondered about Pegler. Nevertheless, his fascinating sociological problem came to mind last week when I noted a newspaper photograph advertising the appearance of a crew of professional women wrestlers. The picture of the star of the show, "Moolah, the Slave Girl," drew me irresistibly to the Cambridge Armory last Saturday night. Her "sultry and savage" antics in the ring drew me oven more irresistibly into her dressing room, after the show...
...know, down South, women's wrestling is awfully popular," the Slave Girl continued. "Down there I've had spectators throw lighted cigarettes at me. I don't really mind it, though. They just get excited and don't know what they're doing...
...Slave Girl disclosed that by virtue of a recent victory in Toledo, Ohio, she is now woman world's champion, a fact which her agent apparently overlooked in the pro-fight publicity. Wrestling has taken her not only to Ohio, but to Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Hawaii, Argentina and to most of the forty-eight states...