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Maestro Giordano, composer of Andrea Chenier and Fedora, now very popular throughout Italy, has completed a new opera which is to be produced sometime in the indefinitely near future at Milan. He has written music for Bellini's play La Cena della Beffe which the two male Barrymores played in this country as The Jest...
...minutes in the drama is reduced to four minutes in the opera, because all the characters speak at once. The result must be striking if not effective. As yet no one is said to have heard the music except Giordano's wife. But the combined popularity of La Cena della Beffe and of Giordano in Italy should make a local success of the opera if its score is anything but excessively inferior...
Petronius, "Cena Trimalchionis," based upon the edition of Buchele By W. E. Walters, Ph. D., classical instructor, Cincinnati...
Since I graduated (you know I took Classical Honors in '7-) I've been teaching Latin here. My position would be very pleasant if the students would only pronounce rightly, and not persist in spelling caelum, coelum, and cena, caena, or coena. The worst of the matter is that they are sustained by the only text-books to be had in this unenlightened district. Just think of it, Jim, while revelling in your texts of Bibl. Teubner., that we poor mortals can get no classics of later date than 1870. Then my pupils will take as models those antiquated...