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Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...
Last week, with the publication of Books VII and VIII. bound together and titled The World from Below, the general pattern of Men of Good Will became a little clearer. But the engrossing questions of its permanent literary value and of its probable influence and significance were as open to controversy as before. Less crowded with incidents than preceding volumes, The World from Below deals primarily with the dilemma of Jean Jerphanion, keen, ambitious, radical student whose desire to reform the world and prevent war is thwarted by his inability to find a political group or a party in whose...
...where the new company set about making pictures for Paramount and Gaumont-British release, Alexander Korda had a hard time until someone sent him a fat, pasty-faced young actor named Charles Laughton. To the derision of the whole British film industry, Producer Korda promptly cast Laughton as Henry VIII. He then persuaded United Artists to release the finished picture and last of all got together enough private capital to make it. The Private Life of Henry VIII made Laughton a superstar, launched the careers of Robert Donat, Binnie Barnes, Wendy Barrie and Merle Oberon, caused Korda...
...fruit thereafter.) VII "I dealt him power beneath his hand, For trial and proof, with his first command- Himself alone, and no man to gainsay him. On him the end, the means, and the word. And the harsher judgment if he erred, And-outboard-ocean waiting to betray him. VIII "Wherefore, when he came to be crowned, Strength in duty held him bound, So that not power misled nor ease ensnared him Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him!" IX After his lieges, in all his lands, Had laid their hands between his hands...
...Group IV Memorial Hall Mr. Cram, Sec. 42, 43, Conf. Group III Memorial Hall Mr. Edson, Sec. 12, 21, Conf. Group V Memorial Hall Mr. Farley, Sec. 41, Conf. Group VI Memorial Hall Mr. Gleason, Sec. 2, Conf. Group VII Memorial Hall Mr. Hoeing, Sec. 3, 22, Conf. Group VIII New Lect. Hall Mr. Jones, Sec. 23, 30, Conf. Group IX New Lect. Hall Mr. Lewis, Sec. 4 Conf. Group X New Lect. Hall Mr. Lynd, Sec. 5, 16, Conf. Group XI New Lect. Hall Mr. Marston, Sec. 17, Conf. Group XII New Lect. Hall Mr. Matterson...