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...great god is Ahuramazda, who created this earth . . . that heaven . . . man . . . peace for mankind, who made Xerxes king. . . . My father is Darius. ... He wrought many excellent things. . . . When my father Darius went away from the throne, by the grace of Ahuramazda I became king. ... I wrought many excellent things...
Many a buried treasure is still waiting to be found. Some scholars think Darius III of Persia cached a still-undiscovered gold hoard worth over...
...piano. The invention ir.ade slight impression on Wiener but Doucet's lazy, easy way of playing fascinated him. The pair went in for two-piano music, particularly for flowered transcriptions of U. S. jazz. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel started going to hear them along with Composer Darius Milhaud, who named a pantomime Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Also went Writer Paul Morand, Painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Fisticuffer Georges Carpentier, the late King Ferdinand of Rumania, musical Prince Charles of Belgium. Six years ago as Le Boeuf began to take on a smug, profitable air, Wiener & Doucet left...
...entered the Treasury four years ago as the dictatorial, rather supercilious scion of a wealthy old family. Born 46 years ago at Newport, R. I. at the height of the social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock...
...This pleasant bald-headed gentleman (who, at the New York Philharmonic, is overshadowed by the severely classical Arturo Toscanini) has championed more modern opera than any other man in Germany. He directed the premieres of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck (five years before Stokowski gave it to Philadelphia), Frenchman Darius Milhaud's Cristophe Colomb (written to the libretto of French Ambassador Paul Claudel), Czech Jaromir Weinberger's Schwanda, scheduled for performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year. It was Kleiber's enterprising programs, as well as his sound musicianship, which won him a reengagement for next vear with...