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...Puccini, her intimate friends; Franz Schreker, whose music she loathes ("His stories are morbid and unhealthy; his scores, vocally, are the most terrible ever written") ; Geraldine Farrar, whom she generously admires; Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Marcella Sembrich her teacher, "strict, and, when I sometimes gave her occasion, stern." The choicest bits are the naive little confessions. "The jewels I wear on the stage are all imitation." ... "I might as well state categorically that my hair, all of it, is absolutely my own and grows naturally instead of being appliqué. Naturally, I exclude from this claim the wigs I wear...
After those four years, any comment on the performance of the Chauve-Souris seems quite superfluous. Better typewriters than ours have rattled off their choicest superlatives in praise of the rotund personality of Balieff and the magnificently foolish or beautiful performance of his company. The fragments which have made up the repertory of Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul...
...Florence. The most conspicuous object in the hall is a bronze bust of the Marquis of Pescara, wearing the Golden Fleece, ascribed to Benvenuto Cellini. In the rooms, which will form the happy hunt-ing-ground of bibliophiles living and bibliophiles yet to be born, are some of the choicest books in existence, ranging from the rare incunabula (books printed before 1500) to autograph copies of books by famous authors and statesmen. Mr. Morgan's collection of Coptic manuscripts is said to be the finest in existence. To do justice to the wonders of this book paradise would take more...
...jane - But Needs America's Uncanny Showman The horn of France's theatrical plenty is to be opened and two of the choicest bits transferred for brief consumption in America. Réjane, tragedienne who has succeeded Bernhardt in the first place in the hearts of France, will come over within a year; next September comes the Folies Bergeres, parent of our own Follies, Scandals, Passing Show, Vanities...
...this influx of culture has its price. The sacred White Elephant is losing caste. Once he lived in a palace, wore gold trappings, and had girls to dance before him while he ate the choicest fruits. Now he is housed in an ordinary stable and, like his darker brethren, must work in harness for his hay. Such is the fate of the pachyderm which legend calls the heavenly form of Gantama Buddha...