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...Workshop's productions is that they conspicuously employ as stars and director several students already well established in the HDC, thus assuring polish but slightly displacing the idea of the Workshop designed to find and train new faces. But minor complaints cannot obscure the distinction of the Workshop's Emperor Jones and The Purification...
Last week, at the end of its first full year of independence, Austria's answer was clear: not since the days of Emperor Franz Josef has the country been so gemutlich; never has it been so prosperous. As the troops pulled out, the tourists moved in. By last August, Chancellor Julius Raab's government announced, the nation's tourist revenues reached a record $100 million, exceeding the previous high set during all of last year by 20%. There was not a hotel room to be had in Vienna, though two new hotels-the Am Stephansplatz...
...general was discussing the problem with a political associate, whose three proud and beautiful cousins had been rejected by the emperor. All at once he found himself staring at a kitchen wench who was tending the fire. He seemed to detect under the soot a deli cate beauty. "But who is this girl?" he demanded excitedly of his host. "Why, nobody at all," the other replied. "She is only a little serving girl, fresh up from the country." The general seized the frightened child and wiped the soot off her face. "I have found a pearl!" he cried...
Soon the girl, who was given the name of Yang Kwei Fei, was dressed in robes of finest silk, and sent to wait upon the emperor where he took his tea among the flowering plums. He took up his lute and made a hymn to the budding grove. The maiden, listening, was pierced to the heart by his music. She thought, "He must be seeking sincerity." That night she was sent to wait upon the emperor in his bedchamber. When he came to bed and saw her fresh and tender as a flowering branch, he staggered back. "Who sent...
...years that followed, Yang Kwei Fei and the emperor lived together in the light of love; but all the while, though neither of them knew it, the light cast a lengthening shadow across the land. In gratitude to his favorite, the emperor had made her former master his prime minister, and that rapacious man had made the name of Yang a byword and a hissing in every corner of the empire. At last there was a revolution. The emperor's own guard put the tyrant to death, and demanded the life of Yang Kwei Fei as well. The emperor...