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Composer Sowerby's Prairie, like Carl Sandburg's poem which inspired it, aptly describes the hush which enwraps the flat midwestern farmlands, the far-away burr of threshing machines, the climactic glow of a sudden sunset and the grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living...
...natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding with voodoo rites a special silver bullet. The far-away sound of tom-toms told Jones his game was up. With a panama hat on the back of his head, Emperor Jones Tibbett, whistling "Swanee River." abandoned his palace, started into the dark Caribbean jungle designed by Jo Mielziner...
...melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their lugger to another island. Captain Nichols, skipper of the boat, is a shifty but unashamed scoundrel. Blake is a nice-looking youngster with a secret on his mind. When a gale blows them to Kanda, a beautiful...
...haunting strains of violins, and the far-away scraping of cellos make up for whatever air of mystery that the picture fails to provide. Complications, and there are always an abundance of them, enter in with the presence of the detectives, who look just like detectives and always keep their hands in their pockets. Promises of round-the-world cruises, the sight of blood on Peggy's dress, and a great deal of locking and opening of doors finally makes everything turn out in an interesting...
...Manila the President's words were spread abroad in big black type. Politicos, more restrained than usual, pointed out hopefully that at least their far-away ruler did not say he was opposed to ultimate independence. Against his suggestion that, before freedom, the Philippines be developed economically (presumably with U. S. cash) they raised the old argument that such development would so enhance the islands' value that the U. S. could never be induced to let them...