Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Satan loomed tall as a tower; his eye was a jewel, his voice was thunder. On the stage of the Chicago Auditorium he stood, for the first time this year. He was Feodor Chaliapin, giant Russian basso, appearing in Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like...
...composers wagged reproving fingers at the cinema, regarding it as a disorderly small boy whose grubby touch has too often smutted the dress of their lady, Music. Last week, one Josiah Zuro, Presentation Director in a Manhattan cinema theatre, pointed to a way by which composers, by casting an eye to the education of that same grimy juvenile, might better themselves, serve their, mistress to boot. "The cinema," said he, "needs opera-thumbnail opera. It needs opera to take the place of 'presentations'." Who does not know these presentations? In that uneasy ten minutes which intervenes between...
From the University of Chicago, came tidings of additional experiments in transplantation by Doctor Theodore Koppanyi, already mentioned in these columns for his work on transplanting the eye and the spleen...
...Keezer, Harvard square merchant, took exceptions to the article in yesterday's CRIMSON outlining his philosophy of life and depicting the struggles of his early days. He came into the CRIMSON office bright and early yesterday morning with fire in his eye...
...expense was spared in building Widener. The great vault of the Reading Room is gratifying to the artistic eye, and it helps materially to make the room healthful for study; yet despite these advantages the Widener atmosphere is none too pure. If the ventilating apparatus is at fault, if ought to be given immediate attention, and until its deficiencies are remedied the attendants might very well adopt the cruder method of periodically opening the windows...