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FAME - Micheline Keating - Putnam ($2.00). A tangle of love, libertines and the pursuit of happiness among stage folk and artists, including an CEdipus twist where the high-strung heroine and her father, not knowing their relationship, nearly wed, is pretty strong stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatole at Ease* | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...concert of American compositions to be held this summer, at the Paris exhibition, two selections by Prosessor Paine wlil be played: the prologue to the "CEdipus King" and the "Island Fantasy," the latter under the name of "Au Bord de Flots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/2/1889 | See Source »

Many students in Greek 2 use the libretto edition of the "CEdipus," which was published at the time that the play was given in Sanders Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/19/1885 | See Source »

...music department has contributed in no small degree to the renown of Harvard. Many of us can remember what a stir Professor Paine's CEdipus music made at the time of the Greek play-it ranks among the very best of recent music; and his last symphony has a European reputation. The estimation in which he is held by the best critics is indicated by the following remarks from the Nation of December 4, apropos of another recent work of his, the "Tempest." a symphonic poem, performed by Thomas's Brooklyn orchestra, recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music at Harvard. | 12/11/1884 | See Source »

...moved from within. Some of the birds had long necks extending several feet above the heads of the actors; these were swans, a spoon-ball, and a gorgeous flamingo. The bright colors and picturesque attitudes of this chorus made the 'Birds' a far more brilliant spectacle than either the 'CEdipus' or the 'Ajax.' The final scene was especially striking. On each side of the stage the Birds were grouped like infantry prepared to receive cavalry, the front rank crouching close to the ground, wrapped in their wings, the next row standing with their wings stretched out from the shoulders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "BIRDS." | 1/4/1884 | See Source »

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