Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond who is further inclined in the study of History, "The Rise of Big Business", will be explained in detail by Professor Schlesinger in New Lecture Hall at 11 o'clock. At this stage of the morning, the Vagabond, somewhat enervated from his strenuous note taking and ardent listening, may rest, looking ahead with anticipation to the advent of evening, when he may listen enraptured, to the annual Sanders Theatre Concert of the Glee Club, to begin at 8 o'clock. Here he will hear, among other charming renditions, Gluck's "Two Choruses and Ballet from 'Orpheus'", and Mozart...
...Theatre, knowledge of the language of the players is by no means necessary; the astounding effects make their impression regardless. Such men as Maxim Gorky, Stanislavsky, Ghaliapin and Lenin have been won to the cause of the Habima at their first performance, and it is due to the ardent championing of these men that the Habima has survived the troubled days of the Revolution, and is now able to offer to Boston the astounding perfection of dramatic art which is its and which has caused such a stir in all the capitals of Europe and in New York...
Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Scanlon, 57, President of the National Tem- perance Society, ardent Presbyterian Prohibitionist; of heart dis- ease; in Pittsburgh...
...Demi-Bride (Norma Shearer). Criquette (Norma Shearer), convent-bred maid of Paris, glimpses one Phillippe (Lew Cody), making his ardent way to another woman's heart in the park nearby. This is the man for Criquette. Though he is her stepmother's lover, though he looks upon her as a creature of the nursery, she persists in wooing him. By inveigling, him into a compromising situation, she succeeds in forcing him to marry her. As she walks down the aisle of the church, the unhappy groom notices that his bride by compulsion is quite a beauty...
...noon, Professor Hill will give a lecture in the Music Building, for which the Vagabond has long been waiting: a lecture on Wagner. Wagner has always been for him a most fascinating figure, not only because of the music to which the Vagabond is an ardent convert -- but because of the man himself. Unquestionably, the composer's greatest works were written not merely for the sake of the music as is usually the case but as much to embody his philosophical ideas and theories. Wagner was what one might call a musical-dramatist; he was also a stony socialist...