Word: ballads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action is combined spectacle, pantomime, opera. The story is based on a legend of the ages, told twice before?by John Davidson. in The Ballad of a Nun and by Maeterlinck in Soeur Beatrice. The Nun, feeling the call of the flesh, deserts her cloistered life, goes through a strange variety of worldly revels, and returns, tarnished and beaten by the world, to find that the statue of the Virgin has come to life and performed her duties in her absence...
...HARP WEAVER AND OTHER POEMS-Edna St. Vincent Millay- Harper ($2.00). Lyrics, sonnets and one unforgettable ballad by one of the very first of our poets...
...wheel of time rolled on and only an American ballad kept the memory of this dreadful deed green. Then a short time ago a clever reporter came upon a man registering at a hotel as E. Robinson Casey. With sudden inspiration he cried. "Why, did you do it?" "I couldn't help it," Mr. Casey replied in a dull and automatic tone, "the umpire called 'em wrong...
None of the acting was distinguished, though Mary Carroll, as the daughter of the hills, carried the burden of the evening satisfactorily. George Thompson, her ancient father, proved the accuracy of the old descriptive ballad : "' Oh, mountaineers have furry ears...
...BALLAD OF WILLIAM SYCA-more: by Stephen Vincent Benet. The Back Row Book Shop, Inc.: New York, New Haven, Princeton...