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Unlike his famed predecessor, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis has no dissipations. For amusement, he listens to the radio, buys ice-cream for his young Detroit cronies, visits cinemas with his sisters whose names are Eulalia, Emmarell, Vunies, Dulcinea. In Manhattan last week, where Harlem Negroes held church services to pray that he would win, Joe Louis was attended by four special Negro policemen for each of whom he bought a present after the fight. Before the fight, he predicted he would knock out Carnera in the fifth round. Carnera predicted he would win in the sixth. When it was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bomber, Assassin, Slasher | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...driven his niece (Sidney Fox) and her ninny of a fiance to despair by selling all his possessions to buy a library of chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best to help and coddle the old zany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 31, 1934 | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...Chaliapin made his first (U. S.) appearance* as the Don, proved himself once more a master interpreter, able to grasp what Massenet had been temperamentally unable to?the irony, the humor, the pathos, of the first Don Quixote. On he came, splendidly, madly scattering largesse, singing to his love Dulcinea, who knew him only for a seedy dolt who roamed the countryside. Off he went, for her, to find her necklace stolen by a band of brigands; saw windmills in the clearing mist take shapes of giants making wild gestures with their great revolving arms, charged them in the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Don Quichotte | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...give place to none in the position they hold in the eyes of the public. First came Anna Pavlowa, for a "farewell season." The instrument of her return was a ballet based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, Mme. Pavlowa taking the dual role of the Barcelona innkeeper's daughter and Dulcinea del Toboso. When she made her initial entrance among more than 80 other performers, she was at once recognized; and the Manhattan audience shook with enthusiastic applause for five minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Koussevitsky Triumphant | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

...program follows: March: Colonel Miner's Rosencranz Coronation March from The Prophet Mayerbeer Morris Dance Noble Springtime: Valse Intermezzo Drumm March: Harvard's Own Simmons Spanish Suite: Safranek 1. Don Quixote 2. Dulcinea March: El Captain Sousa Procession of Bacchus From the Ballet Sylvia Delibes March: Our Director Bigelow Love Song Doud Solo Cornet: Mr. Hugo L. Blair '25 Suite: Sigurd Jorsalfar Grieg 1. Vorspiel

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND AGAIN IN PUBLIC EYE AT UNION CONCERT TONIGHT | 2/29/1924 | See Source »

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