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...some ugly details of how Rumania deals with her Jews (TIME, Dec. 13) came to light when Queen Marie threw the spotlight of world interest full upon the Danube. Last week repercussions of this anti-Semite movement prompted an article in Harpers Magazine by the Austrian publicist Josef Bard. Striking shrewdly at the roots of antiSemitism, Herr Bard postulates five attributes possessed by Jews which give them an advantage over Christians in the modern competitive life struggle...
...productions of Twelfth Night, the complicated fortunes of Viola, the shipwrecked maid, in love with the Duke of Illyria in love with the proud Olivia in love with the shipwrecked maid impersonating her twin brother are too frequently allowed to lag into slow comedy only partially relieved by the Bard's verse. Not so in this case. The cast mercifully interpret light comedy in a gay spirit unoppressed by the playwright's reputation. Sometimes the humor is even flavored with slapstick, as in the case of Egon Brecher's Sir Toby Belch, who does. Yet so airily...
...early Greek literature we find constant reference to singing and dancing together; they seem to have been inseparably wedded. Most true is this in the religious ceremony, and indeed it was in worship of the gods that the molpe was most generally employed. A bard, with a lyre, stood in the center of the dancing ring, and instituted the dance, and conducted and led the movements, singing to his lyre, and accompanied by the dancers themselves. Later, the dancing chorus was divided into singing and dancing units; from this division came the use of the chorus as in Greek drama...
...this poetry does not come alone from a transient emotional flash. The bard in the Molpe did not compose his song on the spur of the moment. He had a helper who wrote out the lines. To properly write the lines of the song, the composer had to experience the inspirational cesiasy of the bard just as the bard needed some consciousness of craff as he sang. This refutes those who say that long and careful foil is foreign to poetry; through the mind of the poet as he works over his lines, rewriting and correcting, there is a subconscious...
...received not little press support. Only to those who live in Santa Fe does the Outcome of the struggle between the old and new directly matter. But it matters to the country that there is at least one town where such a protest finds support, where even today a bard rises with a protest of the old-fashioned kind-in verse, as so many of mankind's greatest protests have been written...