Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story by Marcel Allard. The plot concerns itself with the vicissitudes of a young peasant girl, who is betrothed to a doctor, but runs away with her music teacher, and is married to him. The poverty of her husband, who is an opera singer, irks her and in despair over his jealousy she returns to the jilted doctor. Life with him is equally troublesome, and after another reversal of affections she again leaves him for the singer...
...such a fix most impresarios would give up in despair. But Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who until this year has run the Metropolitan without deficit, did not sit back dejectedly. He issued an appeal for the Company to save itself. He begged every member, singers and stage hands alike, to sacrifice himself regardless of contracts and rights. Said he: "When a house is on fire one does not send for lawyers or notaries. . . . I offer to serve [the Metropolitan] in the coming season with necessary reductions of salary which circumstances require, and even without salary if this be necessary...
Subsequent investigation yields nothing to Inspector Thumm and Attorney Bruno. In despair they turn to Drury Lane, a retired actor who had helped them on a criminal case before. Actor Lane is an esthetic Sherlock Holmes who quotes Shakespeare, names his servants after Shakespearean characters, lives in an Elizabethan village of his own creation, takes sunbaths in a breechcloth on an Elizabethan tower. He soon figures out who must have committed the murder, but he has a long way to go to get enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder...
LINCOLN KIRSTEIN'S first novel, "Flesh is Heir" might be said to show great promise for the future rather than attainment in the present. It deals with the generation that followed the war, only vicariously affected by its disillusion and despair. The method is autobiographical; so much so in fact, that many who know the author or even who know Cambridge can recognize various of the characters. The novel, or "historical romance" as it is called, is composed of a series of episodes, almost short stories, of the youth of one Roger Baum during the last decade. First...
...does crazy Sarah Bridle. Best of all he loves Joe Bridle's truelove Susie Dawes. But Susie's depraved father will not let her go with Bridle or with Death: he aims to sell her to rich, sadistic Farmer Mere. After the wedding ceremony Joe Bridle in love's despair hands the deadly parchment back to Death...