Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular festival chorus of 325 and an added band of 80 men and women singers from the National Cash Register Company, with 48 professional vocalists to chant t he solo parts so that the quartettes were themselves fair sized choruses-that began Cincinnati's homage to Apollo for 1923. It was prodigious-for mere magnitude. Imagine a dozen soprano voices singing a trill in unison, as they did. The performance was very good, and received universal praise. It deserved...
...property rights nor the code of honour among users of the University Library. Even more does the lack of any sense of value displayed by these Vandals challenge explanation. At its best, this sort of thing is reminiscent of the penciled moustache on the High School statue of Apollo; at its worst it approaches the mentality of the urchin who chalks his meagre store of profanity on fences and telegraph poles...
...personal letters of student to father or father to student. Requests for money predominated the letters addressed to fathers. In fact, rhetoricians made a respectable income by writing for students letters guaranteed to arouse compassion. One student added at the end of his letter. "Without Ceres and Bacchus, Apollo grows cold," while another wrote that the messenger from home bringing money had been robbed...
...poem "Cassandra" is possibly the most interesting and arresting one in the book. It is the story of the Trojan priestess from a short while before her dedication to Apollo, until the coming of Agamemnon's hosts. The subject and the art are more nearly Greek than anything we have seen attempted in this country for many years. In the contrast between Cassandra's secret love for Corebus and her unwilling surrended to the God, the writer subtly shows the tryanny of those beings whom Homer certainly did not over-much respect. Greek too is the feeling, dimly sensed throughout...
...advanced word in theatre construction will be pronounced when A. H. Woods opens the new Apollo Theatre in Chicago. The seating capacity is 1600, included in the main floor, a short mezza-nine and one balcony...