Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House hummed its loudest and busiest. Every half minute, a notable trod down a plush aisle: a social lioness, jewels agleam, stalked her stately way into a well-known box; this distinguished musician, that famed diplomat?they kept the audience craning necks, peering into programs, discussing personalities. The most brilliant gathering of the, year, had assembled to hear the first U. S. opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd impresario...
Other "native" operas had come through competition for prizes, forced hot-house flowers, that wilted soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...exact worth of being able to do, especially when one's auditors over failure. In an ecstasy of optimism one might take this game as an indication on return to an age of brilliant intellectualism, the rise of pootics and the decline of petting. To the calloused, however, who have successively witnessed the reign of crossword puzzles, Charleston and channel swimming, "Ask Me Another" means only a brief respite from insanity. For a few months Webster and the Britannica will be best sellers; but in the end the nation will remain untainted by the renaissance of learning. Thinking offers amusement...
...collection of water-colors by Professor Arthur Pope, which is on view at Doll and Richard, 71 Newbury Street, Boston, is, however, no ordinary exhibition. Perhaps the first thing that strikes one on seeing it, is the blazingly daring use of brilliant color, that varies from the brightest crimson in the "Mountain Ash in the Great Gulf," to the cool greens and lavenders of some of the other pictures...
...backwater reflecting the overhanging trees--and with which, be it admitted, the Student Vagabond was strongly impressed--to the rather violent impressionism of such works like the "Pond in Pinkham Notch", from the grey two light haze of the "Tuilerics Gardens" and the "Place de la Concorde" to the brilliant yellow sunshine of the "Sandbank at Nawshon", there is a variety and freshness in execution which cannot fail to please any vagabond who is wise enough to take the trip into Boston to see the pictures before March 8. Such a one will come away a wiser...