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...illness (pneumonia); in London. Broker Bradley entered the whiskey business as a young man at Frankfort, Ky., was president of the "Whiskey Trust" for twelve years. Famed Bradley brands: Old Crow, Old Hermitage. No less famed was the Bradley mansion in Washington, with its 500-seat theatre, known as Aladdin's Palace. Tiring of Washington, Distiller Bradley had his home moved stone by stone to Newport...
Began President Conant: "An eventful and significant epoch in Harvard history has closed." That epoch dated back to 1909 when Charles William Eliot turned over to President Lowell a Harvard faculty unrivaled in intellectual prestige. Under the ambitious, Aladdin-like administration of President Lowell Harvard grew big and rich. Its faculty swelled from 600 to 1,692, its student body from 4,000 to 8,000, its endowment from $20,000,000 to $126,000,000. New buildings mushroomed-libraries, dormitories, museums, laboratories. On the human side, President Lowell's heart was with his undergraduates and he wanted...
From her reputation as a satirical novelist (Potterism, Orphan Island, Staying With Relations) Rose Macaulay has fled all the way into the 17th Century, to a copiously documented historical romance of Cavalier England. Smacking more often of Aladdin's than the student's lamp. The Shadow Flies offers the reader a rich mouthful of a spicy age. Parson-Poet Robert Herrick's Devonshire parish (1640) is the first scene, with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor...
...performances, all sung by a distinguished troupe but none of them novelties. Most memorable event of the season, about which San Franciscans were still talking and laughing, had come with the opening night. Mârouf, by French Composer Henri Benjamin Rabaud, was the opera. Opulently oriental, with an Aladdin-like plot out of the Arabian Nights, it was first performed in Paris in 1914, is pleasantly modern, sleekly and gracefully orchestrated. In it sang tall, reedy-voiced Soprano Yvonne Gall and Tenor Mario Chamlee who used to be Archer Ragland Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), born 39 years...
...Walter Ruttmann (who made for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari expressionistic sets never surpassed in the cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats a sorcerer in settings and among characters taken from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin is there, though now he has to light his lamp instead of rubbing it to summon genii. There are the Sultan, the Magic Horse, the fairy Peri-Banov, the Princess Dinarzade. Like contortionism and sword-swallowing, the picture is remarkable principally because its technique was difficult...