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...Firebrand?A new author, Edwin Justus Mayer, has contrived a satirical romance of incidents from the life of Benvenuto Cellini. Joseph Schildkraut is principally concerned...
...some years since Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni, Italian master-pianist and modernist, startled the musical intelligenzia by advocating an entirely new musical scale. It was to be composed of quarter-tones, the pitch of each two adjacent tones being only half of what it is on a piano. It was then already noted that music played on a quarter-tone piano would only sound "out of tune"-and that this would be no novelty at all. Quarter-tone effects, it was added, were achieved by every Hawaiian guitar-player when he executed that lugubrious wailing slide along his seductively twanging strings...
...painting in the penitentiary chapel a remarkable picture of Christ ministering to the poor. It was claimed that the counterfeiters had forced him to work for them under threat of death. President Harding pardoned him. It is possible that in Heaven, some day, Sasanoff may be welcomed by Benvenuto Cellini. ¶ Farewell calls-farewell for the Summer-were paid to the President by Ambassador Jusserand of France, and Senators McKinley, Spencer, Sterling, Cameron. ¶ The Washington baseball team, returning home with a string of nine straight victories, opened a double-header with Philadelphia before 30,000 fans. A few minutes...
...Benvenuto Cellini?Letters...
...bronze doors, which are masterpieces of Italian cire perdue work of the 16th Century, said to be as fine as those of the Baptistry of Florence. The most conspicuous object in the hall is a bronze bust of the Marquis of Pescara, wearing the Golden Fleece, ascribed to Benvenuto Cellini. In the rooms, which will form the happy hunt-ing-ground of bibliophiles living and bibliophiles yet to be born, are some of the choicest books in existence, ranging from the rare incunabula (books printed before 1500) to autograph copies of books by famous authors and statesmen. Mr. Morgan...