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...James W. Montee, 64, of Los Angeles, "oldest commercial pilot in the U. S." Not until his 60th birthday did he make his first solo flight, but for six years prior he had ridden in planes over California to point out that great state's scenic wonders to tourists. His three sons are commercial pilots, one of them having won a transcontinental race in a plane built entirely by his parent...
There will be a new solo danseuse?Ruth Page, of Indianapolis, member once of Anna Pavlowa's company, and hitherto notable for her dancing in John Alden Carpenter's Birthday of the Infanta with the Chicago Opera; most important, a new conductor to strengthen further the Italian wing ?Vincenzo Bellezza, Roman, to make his Metropolitan debut with The Jewels of the Madonna during the season's first week...
...Long Beach, Calif., the wife of Trombonist Charles E. Stacy listened at her radio box while far away he broadcast his best trombone solo, "The Sweetest Story Ever Told." The notes were like a lover's last lingering, farewell caress. That is what they were, for he died on the way home, of heart failure...
...Then came Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Feu sweeping its fantastic plumage through a maze of golden apples and silver trees, stripped a little of its diabolism, but gloriously exotic withal. There was the scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with its solo for Flutist Yeschke, new this season, and the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, strident, barbarous, voluptuous...
...smoker will be supplied with quantities of free cigarettes and other refreshments. The musical part of the program will be supplied by the Freshman talent and will be featured by a piano recital and an xylophone solo...