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...keyboard her father roused her with a tap on the shoulder with his cello bow. Because the family was too poor to buy their music, they borrowed it. And often after playing until midnight 12-year-old Marcelline sat up into the morning to copy the parts by candlelight...
...along the shadow-filled edges of the room, great banks of books may be seen, arousing in one a sense of the immensity of knowledge and of its intangibility. In this atmosphere one feels the spirit of the venerable Bede, who completed his biblical translation--despite failing eyesight--by candlelight in his cell at Jarrow. Great indeed is the library that fosters this passionate self-forgetfulness...
...Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which could be brought to light by careful search. The lighting was of course by candlelight, and in 1745 we find bills for "1 Doz. Tin Candlesticks" and "2 Wooden Screws for standing part of said Candlesticks...
...Candlelight," the other picture, features Elissa Landi, and Paul Lukas in a high-society comedy scramble. Elissa is not at her best, but she is bearable. The plot is intricate, one you can puzzle out for yourselves; it involves maids and butlers taking the place of their mistresses and masters, while the masters and mistresses live in sin, and while the butlers and maids think each other other than they seem; it's a good picture...
...Candlelight (Universal). Viennese Prince Alfred von Rommer (Nils Asther) is a sleek seducer whose routine usually gets under way in the warm glow of two candelabra. This requires the assistance of his manservant Josef (Paul Lukas) who, when he hears his master playing "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" to a lady, knows it is time to cut off the lights, bring in the candelabra and apologize for a blown-out fuse. During such a scene with a handsome singer (Esther Ralston) an angry husband bangs his way in upon Prince Alfred's philanderings. When the singer escapes, the Prince...