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...wondered what estimate, if put to it, smart Deems Taylor would put on his new opera. As critic for the New York World he once wrote a review of one of his early symphonic works. He found it full of holes but said that the composer seemed to have talent and that he hoped to hear something more from his pen played by the Manhattan orchestras...
...rich as James Walter Spalding, board chairman of A. G. Spalding & Bros., famed sporting goods concern.* First concerts never pay for themselves. All young musicians start out with patrons. But poor boys, even though patronized, succeed far better than rich ones in capturing popular imagination. Silver-spoon talent is regarded as unlikely. Albert Spalding's debut was received with a certain suspicion. Says he: "The audience seemed to expect me to come out in a baseball suit." The wise Spaldings lost little time in sizing up the situation. Father Spalding suggested that his son forego subsidized concerts, start barnstorming...
...Singer Nastia Poliakova whose deep, dark voice perfectly suited the purely emotional substance, the rambling, improvised style of gypsy songs. After the revolution Poliakova went to sing in a Paris cafe. This year she is in the U. S. to submit her informal, indefinable talent to the test of formal concerts. Manhattan liked her so much that last week she gave a second pro gram there, announced a third. Two of her best songs: "Odor of Lilacs," "What a Chorus Sang...
...Arriving at his destination, a health farm, Errol poses as a detective and makes a bellboy (Stuart Erwin) admire him so much that the bellboy has to be given lessons on how to be a detective. Richard Arlen and Mary Brian are present in a sentimental subplot but their talent is pretty much wasted. Climax: the automobile chase after the kleptomaniac has robbed a bank...
...elimination tournament for University wrestling candidates and one for freshman candidates will begin tomorrow in the New Gymnasium. By means of this tournament Coach Gallagher hopes to unearth any talent that has escaped his attention thus far and to select teams to represent the University and the Freshmen...