Aztec Music Topics Attract Century’s Assembly Talk
Miss Lota Spell of Garcia Library at University of Texas Atlatin discusses Aztec music and its early role in Mexico. She argues European music was not first in America, detailing Aztec instruments, chorus work in construction, and music in education and religious rites. Century Magazine editor Hawland outlines plans and the magazine’s forward look.
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Dayton
Ohio
Lota M. Spell
Varian
Garcia Library
Univerty
Texan
Atlatin
Usic Teachers’ National Aanmoctaon
Columbus
Mexico
Valley of Mexico
Misa Spell
Atecs
North America
Iditle
Montezuma
Miss Spell
Mt, WW
Hawland
Century Magazine
Ife
Famous Authors of Famous Books and Cooperative Marketing
Lois Leyster Montross and Lynn Montross discuss marrying for collaboration on novels then shifting to separate careers. Harpers released East of Eden, while reviews show farmer reception split on cooperative marketing. Howard Pyle sketches in Charlies D Abbott biography are highlighted. Inez Haynes Erwin named president of the Authors Guild. her novel Gertrude Haviland's Divorce also issued by Harper & Brothers.
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Lois Leyster Montross
Lynn Montross
Mr. Montross
Montross
Coolidge
Farm Bureau
American Farm Bureau Federation
East of Eden
Howard Pyle
Charlies D. Abbott
Pyle
Harper's
Canada
Harper's Magazine
Inez Haynes Erwin
Authors’ Guild of the Authors’ League of America, Inc
Mrs. Irwin
Gertrude Haviland
Harper & Brothers
Lois and
Authors’ Guild
Child's Books
New York as World Market for Rare Books
An article in The Publishers' Weekly argues New York is becoming the world’s premier rare book market. Mitchell Kennerley and Arthur Swann cite New York’s wealthy collectors, willingness to pay top prices, superior auction facilities, unmatched catalogues, and growing international reputation as factors likely to surpass Paris and London.
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Carl Purington Rollins
Yale University
Frederic Warde
Bruce Rogers
Harvard University Press
Jerome F. Brooks
Milton Waldman
Oscar Lewis
Frederick M. Hopkins
New York
Atlantic
America
Publishers’ Weekly
William Fox
A. S. M. Hutchinson
Weex
Hutchinson
Paris
London
Mitchell Kennerley
Anderson Galleries
Arthur Swann
American Art Association
London Times
J. H. Slater
England
Bookstall Gossip Tells Story About Oppenheim Party
Dorothy Foster Oilman transcribes a letter from a luncheon hosted by E Phillips Oppenheim author of Gabriel Samara. The party of six enjoyed fine food and cocktails. A bothersome guest pressed for a signed copy and a golf ball, which Oppenheim reluctantly supplied.
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Dorothy Foster Oilman
Boston
Tran‘ript
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Gabriel Samara
Nice
Cannes
Mr. Oppenheim
Musical America Announces $3000 Prize For Symphonic Work
Musical America offers a $3000 prize for an American symphony in a nationwide contest judged by Damrosch Stokowski Koussevitzky Stock and Hertz. An opera and a choral prize follow, with anonymity for submissions and publication rights reserved to composers. The contest closes December 31 1926 and winner to be announced October 1 1927.
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New York
Musical America
Walter Damrosch
New York Symphony
Leopold Stokowski
Philadelphia Orchestra
Serge Koussevitzki
Boston Symphony
Frederick A. Stock
Chicago Symphony
Alfred Hertz
San Francisco Symphony
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
San Francisco
Duttons Publish Milne Poem Christmas Card
The Duttons issue a Christmas card using A A Milne’s When We Were Very Young poem Vespers printed on cream laid paper with colored illustration of Christo pher Robin at prayer. Stanislavsky blinds reported after attack during a Moscow Art Theater rehearsal of The Girl of the Golden West per cable to Morris Gest.
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Duttons
A. A. Milne
Christopher Robin
Constantin Stanislavsky
Moscow Art Theater
Morris Gest
Comstockery Imbecility Criticized By Mencken In Tribune
Critic H L Mencken condemns Comstockery as futile and vile. He argues post office censorship harms legitimate works and that smut rings flourish while publishers and magazines are harassed, urging police and public to resist puritanical censorship.
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Comstockery
United States
Bale
The
Chicago Tribune
Primitive Mind to Be Studied by Jung and Baynes
Nairobi reports that Dr C J Jung of Zurich and Dr H B Baynes of London will spend six months among the Bagishu tribe at Mount Elgon to study primitive mind and seek common mental phenomena across civilized and uncivilized peoples. They will observe reactions from sustained contact and may plan a larger expedition if results are fruitful.
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Nairobi
Africa
Mount Elgon
C. J. Jung
Zurich
H.B. Baynes
London
Six Months Best Sellers In Book Shop Featured Top 75 Fiction
The list covers June to mid year with six titles leading nationwide sales. Notable works include Gene Stratton-Porter The Keeper of the B and B, Marjorie Rinehart The Red Lamp, Anne Parrish The Perennial Bahe, and Elinor Glyn This Passion Called. Romance, morality, and modern life themes dominate the period's fiction.
Conwell Lectures and Lifted Philanthropy Noted
Russell H. Conwell founder of Temple University Philadelphia died after a long life of public service. He was famed for the Acres of Diamonds lecture delivered thousands of times and for raising millions for education and charity. Harper & Brothers call Acres of Diamonds a premier book. Delegates from 16 countries forming 42 organizations with about 400000 members met in Stockholm for the Federation congress.
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Russell H. Conwell
Temple Universit
Philadelphia
Stockholm
International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employes
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France
Kipling
Conrad
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Century Co
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Rogers
Harpers
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Woman's Home Companion
Mr. Milne
Dramatick
Montrose J. Moses
American Dramatist
Jonathan Oldstyle
Washington Irving
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A. Ww. D'Avealliers
French Academy
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Littl, Brown & Company
Henry Pratt Fairchild
New York University
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Wiliam McDougall
Thomas Nixon Carver
J. B. Priestley
London Mercury
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Maess
Oppenheim
H. IL
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Republic
Atlantic Monthly
Literary Digest
Post Office
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Doday
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Mar
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Doran
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Rica
Anne Parrish
Hart
Rington
Dodd, Mead
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Bobbs-Merr
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Elinor Glyn
William Brice
Putnam
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Anatole
Himsel
J. J. Brousson
Linpin
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Lectur
Richard I’. Burton
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