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...CANNOT DIE- Thames Williamson-Small Maynard ($2.50). Strange and wonderful people appear in this strange and wonderful book. Richard Bacon, debonair and demoniac son of Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the elixir of life.* Soon after, he breaks his neck, being no longer useful to Author Williamson Arthur Pentland, who as a child suffered from night fears and grew up to love only his mother (now dead), soon marries a girl that reminds him of his mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives...
...cultural heritage of the new Japan is identical with that of the old, Europe has played the unsuccessful alchemist, in stirring things up without changing their nature. Japan, with her numbers and her new activity, must now attract the social student, as a portent rather than a prey...
...Chicago, too, a conductor was the hero of the premiere. The presentation of La Gioconda, Ponchielli's opera, was a triumph not alone for the ever-popular Rosa Raisa in the title role, but chiefly for Giorgio Polacco, orchestral alchemist, who turned the good showmanship and occasionally melodiously inspirational score of Ponchielli's ponderous work into the semblance of a piece of true art. His genius not only led him to underscore the dramatic situations which are the opera's chief virtue, but to give rare opportunity to the singers themselves, chorus and principals, to make...
...Monthly for March contains the following articles: "The Game of Football," by T. D. Sloan '06: "Objections to Football-from the President's Report": "The Shepherd of his People," by W. R. Nelles '05; "The Spirit of Silence," by H. Hagedorn '07: "The Sovereign Alchemist." by J. L. Price '07: "Whom the Fates Demand," by Van W. Brooks '08; "Old Sauchez' Consent," P. P. Crosbie '05: "Silence," by J. H. Wheclock '08; "At the Last Milestone," by T. L. McShaun; editorials and book-notices...
...Boston performance of the Elizabethan comedy, "The Alchemist," will be given in Potter Hall, Huntington avenue, this evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained at Herrick's, or from H. H. Bennett, 136 Westmorly Court, until 6 P. M. After that time they will be on sale at the box-office...