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...like the kind of solid but fanciful English spirit that muddles through the stories of T. F. Powys, you will be apt to look with favor on Author Coppard's. But unlike Powys. Coppard has more than one string to his bow. The tales in Nixey's Harlequin range from shrewd fables to realism that is only a little out of date. They are all obviously the work of a man who does not see the world through conventional spectacles. If you are one who finds an original view distressing, "queer," better left unsaid. Author Coppard is not your...
...Stradivarius String Quartet of New York will give another of its concerts in the Court of the Fogg Museum on Friday at 8 o'clock...
...well-groomed. After fleeing from Russia in Revolution time, tramping through dense woods in stormy weather, carrying the double bass which was a gift from his uncle, Sevitzky came to the U. S., joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. For the past six years he has conducted his own Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta, an organization composed of 18 Philadelphia Orchestra members which goes on tour playing rarely heard music written for strings. In the U. S. Conductor Sevitzky has still to make a big name for himself. (For financial reasons this autumn he had to resort to conducting the orchestra in Boston...
...Lewisburg lynchings were executed with the drilled precision of a first-class football backfield. With dimmed headlights and without license plates, a string of automobiles quietly circled the Greenbrier County jail, came to a halt. A group of 60 masked men filed up to the jail door. The keeper was summoned, seized, forced to give up his keys. Shivering in their underclothes, Jackson & Banks were taken to the edge of town, strung up to the cross arm of a telephone pole, side by side. Someone gave an order. Stepping back from the pole, the mob raised guns to shoulders, riddled...
...justify the use of the Boston Garden. The Athletic Association has to depend too much on a wholly commercial enterprise. Its schedules must be made out so as not to conflict with the many other lessees of the Garden. The expense is so great that only the first string teams can practice there. And for the majority of games, it is far larger than is necessary. Furthermore the distance removes the sport from its true relation to the University life...