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Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador to Washington: "At a dinner of the Authors' Club in my honor, Oscar S. Straus, former U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, told an anecdote about the late President Roosevelt and me. According to him, I called at the White House one day in cutaway coat, high hat and lavender gloves. The President was about to go for a swim and I accompanied him. On the banks of Rock Creek we undressed, but I kept on the lavender gloves. 'Aren't you going to take them off ? ' asked Mr. Roosevelt. ' No, Monsieur...
This evening's program follows: Prelude to "Carmen", Bizet Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Nicolai Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube", J. Straus Fantasia, "Pagliacci", Leoncavalle Suite, "Nuteracker", Tschaikovsky Organ Solo, (Prof. H. D. Sleeper). Liebesfreud, Kreisler Overture to "Tannhauser", Wagner Selection, "Orange Blossoms", Herbert Volga Bargemen's Song, arranged by Agide Jacchia. "Home, Sweet Home", Bishop-Jacchia
...State Hughes LL.D. '10, Secretary of Commerce Hoover LL.D. '17, former Secretary of State Elihu Root LL.D. '07, President John Grier Hibben LL.D. '17 of Princeton University, President Nicholas Murray Butler LL.D. '09 of Columbia University, Bishop William Lawrence '71 of Massachusetts, former Ambassador to Turkey Oscar S. Straus, Mr. William Allen White, and former Attorney General George W. Wickersham...
Smith has won the spring championship of the Freshman dormitories and consequently will have its name engraved under the heading "Spring 1922" on the three permanent dormitory shields that are now hanging in the Common Rooms of the Freshman Halls. They are the gift of Mr. J. I. Straus '93, who became interested in the physical training program when it was first introduced at the University and offered to give each of the Freshman dormitories any trophy that Mr. W. H. Geer, Director of Physical Education, considered appropriate...
Despite this scattering of peroxide hairs among the silver, however, the opera still remains a delightful and amusing creation. Straus's score is still "a thing of beauty and a joy forever". Moreover the settings of the first act combine brilliance of color with an ingenious use of draperies, and the whole is no further from the actualities of Bulgaria than the nature of the piece demands. The garden scene, likewise, is most picturesque, and is not sufficiently like any known landscape as to mislead even the most realistically-minded...