Word: ets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Ballantine will play a group of short selections composed of: Brahm's Rhapsody in E flat, and two compositions by Debussy entitled: Et la Lune Descend sur le Temple qui fut, and Jardin sous la Pluie...
...scholars periodically get excited when, in the sands of Egypt or the Near East, someone turns up what is called "the world's oldest Biblical text." Famed for its comparative completeness is Codex Sinaiticus of the 4th Century, sold by Soviet-Russia to England (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). For a time the oldest known gospel fragments were some 3rd Century papyri owned by Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime U. S. millionaire, now a British subject. Year ago the British Museum acquired some unidentified 2nd Century Greek papyri paralleling St. John (TIME, Feb. 4). Last December in the John...
...completed its own destruction. Great credit for the current Wagner vogue is due Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the mighty-voiced Norwegian who last winter won an overnight success as Isolde, went on to prove herself as Brünnhilde, the Ring's long-suffering heroine (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante}. This year Soprano Flagstad is again the Metropolitan's prime drawing-card. As Brunnhilde, she will sing in Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Many a Ring ticket was sold on her account. But wholehearted Wagnerians realized that Flagstad was only one part in the cycle, no more important than...
...talent. Tramp ing through galleries, she has spotted many a promising newcomer. She was the first collector to buy a painting by an aged Pittsburgh housepainter named John Kane, who before his death in 1934 became the high-priced rage of the modern art world (TIME, June 3 et ante}. She was one of the first to buy from the eccentric Louis Eilshemius...
...famed mathematician, philosopher, pacifist, author, lecturer, advocate of complete sexual freedom including marital infidelity; and Patricia Helen Spence, 25, writer; at Midhurst, Sussex, England. Year ago Earl Russell's second wife, mother of an illegitimate son by a journalist, divorced him for adultery (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934 et...