Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The big moment of the play?by Maurice Hewlett's Quatrocentisteria, out of a legend of Botticelli?is when the beautiful Simonetta, offering to pose for the painter, comes to his studio, clad only in a cloak. Flinging the cloak from her she reveals herself to him, clothed only in...
It is just that nations should reward those who sacrifice so much in their defence, and there is little complaint to make on this score. But how long has it been since a noted British scientist bitterly accused his government of casting its geniuses on the scrap-heap." His point...
WANDERER OF THE WASTE LAND? Zane Grey?Harper ($2.00). Mr. Grey thinks this his "most mature and finished work." It is another tale of gunplay and men who are unquestionably men. The hero shoots his brother, almost dies of thirst, kills a man barehanded, engages in unsuccessful battle with a...
He has a series of disillusionments, in chance meetings with street- walkers, bums, financiers. At one point he tries a bottle of rat poison, but finds in it not oblivion but a stomach ache. The girl is more successful in her choice of poisons, and dies on his hands-finding...
Thursday evening, then, the East and West of music, so to speak, met. The contrapuntal perfections of Palestrina and the polyharmony of Boulanger bowed, smiled, and behaved in a highly amicable way. The "Vielle Priere Bouddhique", to which Wilbye's rather meaningless "Amarillis" afforded good contrast, is modern music at...