Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Madame Sans Gene. Gloria Swanson, husband and all, is back from Paris with this latest, most expensive picture. It is a classic of the French stage and is played before backgrounds of Fontainebleau and Compiegne loaned specially by the Republic. These backgrounds and the costumes are extraordinary. The story cannot match them nor can the performance of the actress. The usually dependable Miss Swanson overplays the little laundress who rose to be a Duchess. She could not remember not to say "ain't" and got herself in trouble with the Princesses, Napoleon's sisters. A great many francs...
General Andrews was no ordinary soldier. He was the voice of Army philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier...
...whose sculpture laughs at sculpture, until the accumulation of all this malign mirth has inspired them to plead: "If we must laugh, let us laugh honestly. This mockery is unworthy of the staunch hearts. Where is the belly-shaking-chuckle of Aristophanes? Where in Music, in Sculpture, is the Classic Spirit...
...satirist in clay-his grotesquely vivacious figures fully clothed, often painted as well, postured in the more ridiculous attitudes pf contemporary life. These, to be sure, were there, but the prudent, hurrying over them as if they had been jokes in Holy Writ, discovered, in addition, many heads of classic purity, some exquisite busts of children, a big torso in the antique manner. Upon these things lay the lustre of an immemorial beauty that was, assuredly, Classicism. And because he had caught some glimpse of that chaste, magnificent and lonely shape whose massive sandal was set, long ago, upon...
...Page, Prof. W. H. B. Rouse, eminent English classicists, and Dr. Edward Capps of Princeton. The translations are all beautifully done and printed with the page of the original at the left, balanced by the English version at the right. They are not all new translations. Some are themselves classics, as, for example, Apuleius' Golden Ass in the version which William Adlington made in 1566. No uniform edition of the classics has ever before been attempted on such a scale. The annual loss, a large one, is borne by Mr. Loeb. He, when he had retired from active business...