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Other special features will include a singing group known as the "Three Trees". Robert Morris in a vocal feature, and Scott Burbank in a xylophone solo. A novelty of Roy Lamson's, the University Five will play selections of particularly peppy syncopated selections...
Compositions for this prize must be written for four or more voices, with or without solo parts and accompaniment; the words may be in any language, and either sacred or secular. The manner and methods of Mozart or Cherubini in their Masses is, however, recommended by Mr. Boott in its bequest...
Arthur Pryor's Band, now strictly a march recording organization, is well represented in the exchanges by dance selections. But the prize of all is a release of 1910, entitled "The Charmer." This record, a best seller in its day, was a xylophone solo, and the belles of the season all dropped their cherished copies of "Oh Mr. Dream Man--Please Let Me Dream Some More" and rushed...
...Quiet on the Western Front, such plays as Journey's End, Playwright O'Casey reveals a group of infantrymen encamped in a ruined apse behind the lines. There they sing songs of war-not bawdy ditties or rousing marches, but strange and awesome chants. This lyricism, now solo, now antiphonal, now choral, is a poetic, formalized utterance. The diction is abominable-words can only be guessed at-but the import of these Gaelic spirituals can be felt. Mystic and throbbing, they express the soldiers' gruesome mission and man's revolt from the ghastliness he has made...
...Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...