Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is the usual merry epic of a Fairbanks production. It begins with the miracle of the pool by which a shepherdess is made whole by looking at a vision of the Virgin Mary, whom, if the shepherdess had known her Hollywood, she would have recognized as Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart. A city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful...
Theodore Roosevelt '80 was the first prominent person to advocate preserving the songs and annals of the pioneers, and "The Old Chisholm Trail" was one of his favorites. Speaking of this song, he once said, "It is as deathless and doggerel as 'Yankee Doodle', as epic as the "Odessey...
...good seats for the King and his retinue, the new structure plans to cut down the number of boxes from 54 to 35, to increase total seating capacity from 3,600 to 5,372. In oldfashioned opera houses seeing the stage was of minor importance. Since Richard Wagner introduced epic and dramatic beauties, the importance of the stage has increased. Mr. Urban's plans not only provide superior sight lines for the audience; they also include a stage mechanism of elevators, steel screens, side rostrums, of such modern ingenuity that Max Reinhardt, most inventive of stage directors, exclaimed...
While writers of three generations have been spinning yarns on the epic of the fighting frigate that captured the British vessel Guerriere, and motion pictures of this generation have aided in immortalizing it, the tale of a seaman eye-witness of its greatest victory has lain hidden in an old yellowed pamphlet in the College Library...
...stay on as visiting professor. The similarity between Princeton and his own Oxford did not escape him. He accepted, lectured often and melodiously, wrote verse about Princeton in the Revolution and in the then-brewing World War. Prior to The Torchbearers, his most cele brated poem was Drake, an epic of British empire-building. Aged 47, Mr. Noyes lives in London, sensitive, earnest, fond of swimming. Mrs. Noyes (Garnett Daniels) is the daughter of a U. S. Army colonel...