Word: caesars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strictly speaking, his name was Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, and his title was Augustus (from "augeo," "increase") : the Illustrious, the Sublime...
...Arthur Caesar's play about a literary man (played by McKay Morris) who orates upon the freedom of the married woman only to wax illogically furious upon discovering that his wife (played by Florence Eldridge) had once been free. From then on, it is every man's wife for him. Naturally there was much to be said and suffered before a harassed audience could steal away on the first night without embarrassing the well-liked playwright...
...DOOMSDAY - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England. TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parish - Harper ($2). A mother's sacrifice; tears, smiles, aspiration. TAR: A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD - Sherwood Anderson - Boni & Liveright ($3). A Huckleberry Finn in lower Ohio. THE PLUTOCRAT - Booth Tarking ton - Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano...
Finally, Lampy has one brilliant vision--Great Caesar's Ghost! It is by far the best and cleverest in the whole magazine. (Fame for the angel who then hovered over Lampy's dull bed.) Next, we should place the bit of sparkling by-play between Boccacio and Shakespeare. Next, we should place the delightful extract from a disciple of Carl Sandburg. From these three elections, you see the present holds the rubber, and Lampy's costume party is not a success...
These studies, which are reproduced by courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, are particularly illustrative of the principle of representation which Mr. Giles professes. "Ophclia," "Julius Caesar," and "Adolescence" are the gifts of Dr. Ross, while the head of "Cassius" comes to the Fogg Museum from Mr. Avery...