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CONQUISTADOR. American Fantasia ? Philip Guedalla?Harpers ($3). "Tall, unlikely towers steep suddenly out of the mist . . . group themselves into a city," and Historian Guedalla lands at New York to begin three months' inspection of the U. S. He finds Manhattan "an Unsleeping Beauty . . . ever so slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla...
...Significance. Author Bennett has written what he calls a fantasia; mainly for his own amusement, one suspects, though the element of finance may have some place in the picture What he has achieved is a novel which belongs distinctly in the featherweight class, employing a preposterous plot and progressing to an unimportant little climax. Occasional flashes of humor are obscured by the ponderous attempt to make the whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley...
...Duckworth and Co.; "Amores" London (1916), Duckworth and Co.; "Women in Love," London (1921), Martin Secker; "The Lost Girl," London (1920), Martin Secker; "Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Sea and Sardinia," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Aaron's Rod," New York (1922), Thomas Seltzer; "Fantasia and the Unconscious," New York (1922) Thomas Seltzer; "Glad Ghosts," Ernest Benn (1926); "Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine," Centaur-Press (1925); "The Plumed Serpent," London (1926), Martin Secker; "St. Maur, together with the Princess," London (1925), Martin Secker...
...complete evening's repertories follows: 1. Darest Thou Now, Oh Soul Williams Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Flute Obbligato by Mr. George Laurent O, Vos Omnes Vittoria The Harvard Glee Club 2. Suite in A minor Bach Prelude Sarabande Bourree I and II Gigue Sonara quasi una fantasia, Op. 27. No.2. Beethoven Adagio Allegretto Presto Mr. Bauer 3. Hark All Ve Lovely Saints Weelkes Two Choruses and Ballet from "Orpheas" Gluck Flute Obbligato by Mr. Laurent Give a Rouse Bantock The Ride Mabel W. Danie's The Harvard Glee Club 4. Novelette in D major Schumann On line...
...Boston, Ethel Leginska, one-time (TiME, May 3) disappearing pianist, led her new orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic, before fastidious New Englanders; received mingled irony and praise. As all admitted, it was the leader's orchestra, directed nerve on nerve to sheer hypnosis. In Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia, the piece de resistance, Miss Leginska played the piano part, leaving the orchestra, as critics commented, with no mother to guide it, in spite of which it revealed euphony, balance, potential flexibility. A tremendous handicap was the acoustics of Mechanic's Hall. Tumultuous applause from the conductor...