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...Beethoven and Wagner, there was Bach?sacred solos and secular cantatas alike, including the drollery of "Aeolus Appeased" which, after writing it to entertain an honored old professor, Bach changed but slightly to celebrate a Polish king. Cincinnati also heard for the first time "La Primavera" of Ottorino Respighi, dulcet lyric on the text: "God is a Child, for His countenance is frank and truthful like that of a man filled with love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In London | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Canberra | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...tell me what to do with my 22-year old son?" was the request in the dulcet tones of a fond but foolish mother. He is very mischievous and misbehaved, and I simply can't do a thing with him. Do you think it a good idea to put him on a boat under a stern old sea captain all summer and not permit him to land...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Do You Want A Body?" Stumps University 7600 Oracle--Another Voice Asks Chinese Version of "How's Your Oil?" | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...body of 4,000 or 5,000 unwilling performers. Theatre owners stand by their original compromise-offer of a 5% increase in salaries, which would bring them up to from $60 to $90 per week. If the deadlock continues, Sept. 1st will find our eastern playhouses deprived of the dulcet rustle of violins as the lovers dally in the garden, and of the eerie wail of the clarinet as the butler hides the revolver in the sideboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strike Spreads | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

Gypsy Jim. The dulcet diction of Leo Carrillo romantically implores his audience to have faith, that it may automatically acquire fortune. Mr. Carillo plays a genial young millionaire whose fancy is best pleased by wandering about the world disguised as a gypsy and doing good. He appears in a high yellow make-up and exotic attire. His peregrinations lead him to the threshold of a home heavy with failure. The father is a lawyer with no clamor of clients at his doorstep; the daughter, an authoress of many manuscripts but no publisher; the mother, steeped in sorrow for a buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

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