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What could be better than to start my wanderings accompanied by strains of sweet music? Not indeed should I desire the presence of a band to blare its fulsome farewells into my ears; the true aesthetic vagabond must ever shrink from occasions of such banal blasts and boomings. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be in the Music Building to hear the finer, purer strains of Brahms' Violin Sonata when it is played in Professor Spalding's Music...
...meantime, Dreiser's publishers blare forth with sensational advertisements; America's foremost living novelist, as they declare him to be, has written "with the artist's loftiest vision" a tremendous book. Somewhere in all this welter, it seems to me, must be a kernel of truth. Perhaps it is in the significant fact that "An American Tragedy" is being far from phenomenally sought by the book-buying public...
...without ever having received the custom-sanctioned honor of hearing the national anthem of his country played when he visited President Doumergue. For 50 days M. Rakovsky has been vowing that he would never call on M. le Président at all unless assured that the "Internationale" would blare from the Elysée at his approach...
David plays for Saul in his tent; the music runs in a march in three-four time, soars to the song of the shepherd-the Twenty-Third Psalm. In the fight with Goliath, trumpets blare in two keys at once...
...second act, ending with the shooting is rife with tension which explodes as the play ends in a blare of red fire. For the girl has dis. covered treachery in her fisherman and repays it by exploding a gas drum and nearly blowing him off the lighthouse. Smoke and screams fill the theater. The witnesses seemed to like it. There are several good performances, not the best of which was Blanche Yurka's as the lighthouse keeper...