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Identifier: ruhlebencampmaga19164berl (find matches)
Title: The Ruhleben camp magazine
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Ruhleben (Concentration camp) World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: (Berlin, J.S. Preuss, printer)
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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re evacuating their rooms incivilian Barracks. Where JVIars had retired, Minerva entered:n, the Reference Librarian, Dr. Ettinghausen, receiving per-mission to bring his books to shelf and order in the Captainsroom, Barrack 13. For ten weeks the Reference Libraryenjoyed Mr. Redmaynes hospitality, and at the New vYearmoved into its present, more convenient quarters at the N. E.corner of Y. M. C. A. Hall. As to the future of the six thousand and more volumesnow at our disposal, it can only be said as yet that the Boardof Education at home has been considering their future forsome time. Mr. Davies suggests that on that blessed daywhen the Camp breaks up, the books might pass into the careof the American Ambassador, who could transmit them indue course to the Belgian Minister of Education for distributionamong technical, secondary, and elementary schools in thatcountry. Meanwhile, any further and perhaps more feasiblesuggestions could be submitted to the authorities in London. R. G. L. K.
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•s&z Mr. MORVADENS MUSIC to The Passing of the Third-floor Back. WHILE one may question the need and even the desirabilityof music during the intervals of a play — and especiallyof the modern problem-play — there can be no doubt that themusic composed by Mr. Quentin Morvaren for the abovementioned work lent an (added interest to, the production. If onefails to distinguish any marked originality in his music, andif his habit of repeating short phrases and figures as manyas four times in succession becomes rather irritating, onemay well take into consideration the trying conditions underwhich the young composer has had to do his work. Whateverelse may be. said in this favour, Ruhleben is not exactly theplace to stimulate original creative work! The Prelude toAct I is in the form of a set of Variations — (the writer ofthese notes has to admit that until seeing a Programme afterthe performance he was blissfully ignorant of this fact, andtrusts that the composer will not consid

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