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...these newcomers from Shakespeare-land, and the players felt this coolness, and took their own time about setting in motion the action of the play. Only at one other time, during the period of mutual misunderstandings, accusations, and challenges, and the final slow denouement of Act V, did the swift flame of the action flicker a little; and the blame for this lapse can as well be laid at the door of the playwright Will Shakespeare, as it can upon the actors. During most of the three hours, the drama flowed forward quickly; here, the little complications of plot caused...
...Prohibition question as well as in his condemnation of faddism in education, Mr. Taft shows himself to be a conservative, and a conservative of mighty calibre. His attack on new educational schemes and his plea for the old scholastic methods raise the serious question as to whether the swift pace of modern affairs has not tinted modern education with superficiality...
...account of Princeton's Mary Blue's race in the American Field of Sept. 14, 1929-H. H. SWIFT...
Thirteen years ago the Swift chorus was organized as a Wartime songfest whose purpose was to sell Liberty bonds. Annual concerts were given after the War. At one of these, six years ago, Polish Soprano Claire Dux was the soloist, the guest of honor at a Swift plant luncheon. There she and Packer Charles Henry Swift met, became enamored of one another. Two years later they married...
...sentiment, not for gold, Soprano Dux-Swift was soloist at last week's Swift concert, given as usual at Orchestra Hall under Conductor David Alva Clippinger. The house, packed with Chicago socialites, long and loudly applauded her, demanded and got five encores. Another feature was the first performance of Outward Bound, Swift-prize-winning chorus composed by Franz Bornschein to a poem by Catherine Parmenter. Composer Bornschein, no Swift employe, has three times won the annual $100 prize. Honorable mention this year was awarded to Abram Moses of Baltimore and Gustav Mehner of Grove City...