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...command to look up African flora and fauna for this prose opus? Mrs. Crane knows quite well she can "do" nothing about it if Nathalia breaks out again in the next six years. She is perfectly aware that in the girl flows blood, not only from John and Priscilla Alden, but from "the grand old Spanish family, Abarbanel, who counted among their number poets, musicians and a minister of state to Ferdinand and Isabella." Author Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) was "a not distant relative." A grand-uncle edited the American Register (Paris) and knew Empress...
Ruth Hope?U. S. dancer, one-time member of Pavlova's company, especially famed for her work in John Alden Carpenter's Birthday of the Infanta ballet with the Chicago Opera...
...American life reduces itself essentially to violent alternations of Work and Play"?so says John Alden Carpenter, U. S. composer; so does he depict it in his new ballet, Skyscrapers, given its premiére last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Great steel skeletons point into the sky; steel-colored men, monotonously alike, pour life into them . . . Any Coney Island, with its merry-go-rounds, its sideshows, girls, sailors, street-cleaners, sandwich men, time clocks . . . No story, says Mr. Carpenter, just American life?Work and Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life...
Died. David Howard Standish, 68, great-great-great-great-great- great-grandson of Captain Myles Standish of the Mayflower, whose proxy wooing of Priscilla Alden occurred after the death of his first wife and before he married his second; at Essex Fells, N. J., of heart disease. Descendant Standish twice served as Mayor of Glen Ridge, N. J., and carried on an export-import business in Manhattan...
Born in Connecticut in 1850, Dr. Lanman is a lineal descendant of Francis Cook and John Alden of the Mayflower, and of "Brother Jonathan" governor of Conecticut in the early Colonial period. He graduated from Yale in 1871, and studied abroad in Berlin, Tubingen, and Leipzig during the succeeding three years. Later he received honorary degrees from Yale and the University of Aberdeen. From 1876 until he came to the University four years later, Professor Lanman was Turnbull lecturer on the poetry of India at Johns Hopkins University...