Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ballet from "Orpheas" Gluck Flute Obbligato by Mr. Laurent Give a Rouse Bantock The Ride Mabel W. Danie's The Harvard Glee Club 4. Novelette in D major Schumann On line Ravel Scherzo in B flat minor Chopin Mr. Bauer 5. Soterade Boredine Zut! Zut! Zut! Flgar Finale from "Die Meistersinger" Waguer The Harvard Glee Club
...Chicago press but now on the staff of a New York paper; describes the sensations of migration--in his case a permanent one --in the current Bookman. Deep in a long paragraph one finds the enigmatic statement that--"Many authors are born in Chicago but they do not die there." Nor is this anti-Chicago propaganda, as Mr. Hansen carefully adds. Chicago is a very fine place--but not for authors; publishers' cheques are almost always drawn on New York banks. Besides the mercenary attitude there is also the aesthetic: My work is that of reviewing books. In Chicago this...
...each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking...
...inaugurated and gave impetus to the new German dramatic movement which, unlike that of other lands, is still pressing on to new and violently original achievements. Like Sudermann, Hauptmann subsided as a great creative artist about 1910, though only last year he published the much talked of satirical novel Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (The Isle of the Great Mother) ; and only last week his new Dorothea Angermann had its premiere in Vienna...
...cruel Princess Turandot; dusk, and the great sword sharpened for the Prince's neck and the mob crying for compassion. Princess Turandot, icy white, on a Palace balcony, signals to the executioners to proceed. An unknown prince, thrilled by her beauty, is determined to win her or die by the selfsame enigmas. The second act: Ping, Pang and Pong, comic ministers, jabber of the seven thousand centuries of China's glorious past, of Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire her. A square out side the Palace with steps upon steps mounting the depth...