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...writing of plays, but gives several lectures on the subject. During my stay in that course he devoted at least six lectures to a study of the play "Sadie Thompson," both on the legitimate stage and in the cinema, and by reading the Somerset Maugham story, showed how the dramatist had adapted his material. He also made a careful study of "Hindle Wakes...
Wagner, the dramatist, was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven, the Titan, died shaking his fist at a thunderstorm. Brahms' end was more prosaic and not until lately was it described by his housekeeper, the only one who witnessed it (TIME, Nov. 6, 1933). He had cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that...
...Fatal Curiosity, although not so popular as its predecessor, had a real influence on English drama. It was adapted by the German dramatist Werner . . . [which] led to a whole host of plays that became extremely popular in Germany during the 19th Century. They were known as Schicksal Dramen (fate plays). The fate plays came over to England in translation, were enthusiastically received and were in part the forerunners of the romantic melodrama, so characteristic of the last century both in England and in this country, and still in evidence today...
Orthopedist Philip Duncan Wilson of Manhattan, president of the Academy, read the message, called off the names of other famed cripples-,Æsop. Richard III, Alexander Pope, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott-and pointed to one-legged Dramatist Laurence Stallings who was at the speakers' table of the banquet. From their successes Dr. Wilson drew a moral: "The orthopedic surgeons have the duty not only of relieving the patient of physical deformity, but of watching over his mental training during the long periods of hospitalization. The cripple must be made to understand that while his disability can be greatly...
...unrelated to that of Arabic science which was magic, since the Arabs, like us, have the application of science to the exigencies of life for our goal--in other words, power over nature. Roger Bacon, as Mr. Dawson says, "seems at first sight"--so he appeared to the Elizabethan dramatist--"to belong entirely to the Arabic scientific tradition," for since he was aware of the possible misuse of science, "like the Arabs he believed that science was power and that the scientist was a wonder worker and a magician...