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...Turning to a coffeehouse, he was near to joining a sober looking man drinking a dish of chocolate, but a brawl suddenly broke out, and the sober looking man joined in to rescue a poor drunken wretch whom Sobersides addressed as "Dear Dick." The Vagabond bethought himself of Dean Swift, and would have visited that worthy, but his attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor...
...Lieutenant Evans known to every British schoolboy as the second-in-command of the famed Scott expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-12. The South Pole did not end Lieutenant Evans' heroism. During the War he was in command of the Broke when that destroyer and the Swift fought off six German destroyers in 1917. Three times since the War he has been given medals for saving life at sea. He has been C.-in-C. of the Australian Navy and has written a number of healthy adventure stories for boys. What took this most gallant officer...
...less for the long series, $1 to $2.50 less for the short. ¶ There will be the usual familiar faces among the soloists-Gabrilowitsch, Ganz, Petri-but there will also be some new ones, including Poldi Mildner, 18-year-old ''Cyclone of the Piano" whose swift, sharp, unorthodox playing last year gave Manhattan music critics food for many a journalistic difference of opinion. ¶ The trustees look for no reduction in their deficit this year. Last year's was $114,000. but this was reduced $34,000 by rental of Orchestra Hall (which the Symphony Association owns...
...presenting of the Wagner numbers, as though coaxing the orchestra. His swifter style returned when he played and conducted the Concerto. Alternately he rippled off a solo passage, waved the baton, bobbed his head at the orchestra, beat time with a momentarily free hand. The sympathetic orchestra caught his swift mood, faithfully followed him then and later, through the formidable stretches of the Eroica. Happily convinced, the audience broke in with premature applause even more frequently than usual, twice rose in a body to applaud. Happy José Iturbi applauded the orchestra, grinned when they applauded back...
...likes to lay his puppets in a row, dissect them body & soul in advance. In The Paradine Case he takes most of 332 prolix pages for this job. But the reader who gets through these may feel repaid by some 200 pages about the trial itself, mostly swift, naked, exciting questions & answers...