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...estimated by one of the prominent New York critics that there are half a million music students in the United States and that out of that number several will probably make wide success and perhaps one will arise to greatness. That seems a very small proportion. Yet all of the students do not look forward to major successes. Many of them study to become orchestra players and to gain a sound, well-paying profession. Of course, the number of people who study singing in this country is out of all proportion to sense. The American woman is possessed...
SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY?Laurette Taylor enjoying herself in a very old-fashioned melodrama-romance in which ladies wear yard- wide hats and gentlemen lace pants. A clean show about Charles...
...step taken by the Board of Governors of the American Construction Council. Headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and representing all factors in the construction industry, this national organization has recommended that all new construction be deferred for several months, that bankers restrict speculative building loans till fall, that wide publicity be given to the rising costs of construction and that all building by the government be halted over summer. The Federal Reserve Board in Washington has announced itself in agreement with the Construction Board's advice to curtail loans, while Chambers of Commerce all over the country have promised cooperation...
...opponents by overwhelming scores. In the first contest, of the season against Middlesex, the Blue batted its way to a 10 to 3 victory, and little later, it sent Wentworth Institute down to defeat by the score of 6 to 0. Huntington offered even less resistance, succumbing by the wide margin of 17 to 1. The real proof of Andover's strength, however, lies in its victory over the Yale seconds. Shoop, the Andover pitcher, held his opponents to no hits until, in the last of the ninth, mitted Jenkins to smash out a home run, which brought the final...
...foreign composers--works which have never before been performed in this country. Aside from this introduction of unfamiliar compositions, the club will also present five pieces written by Mr. Ballantine of the Music Department. The program is therefore thoroughly representative of the club's aim and deserves wide heralding...