Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behavior of the mule and the inefficiency of scene-shifters, the opening of Rainbow was a long affair, and not so auspicious as it should have been. The story, which had an epic air, concerned a buckskin buccaneer who broke jail and joined the California gold rush, gathering women on the way. His maneuvers led him to pleasing spots, where gaming tables were and where prospectors plied their toothpicks or sang unruly songs...
...Czechoslovakia there has just been completed The Epic of Slavic History, a series of 20 paintings so enormous that Alfons Mucha, the artist, has been as busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic history to allegorical, exuberant prophecy. Sages, religious leaders, rulers appear in glorious pageantry. The most magnificent picture of the series, a canvas as large as the façade of a sizeable barn, depicts the liberation of Russian serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight...
...Epic of Slavic History is at present on exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovakian capital, where a permanent gallery for it will soon be built. It is fitting that on the tenth anniversary of Czechoslovakian independence the country should possess such a Slavic shrine, a goal for pilgrims. Slavs have inspired the shrine, a Slav has peopled it with the painted legion of his forbears, Slavs will visit it with sympathy. But the scheme was fostered by an American, financed with U. S. money. The entrepreneur is grey-haired, goateed Charles Richard Crane, supposedly of Manhattan, in reality most traveled of Americans...
Beowulf and Epic Tradition...
Explains and analyzes the traditional material, historical and imaginative, that was crystallized in the great English epic...