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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speak of the Devil (produced by the Everyman Theatre). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe must have turned in his grave last week when his immortal Faust was produced under the title Speak of the Devil. Then again, he may have been delighted it was not called Faust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Road To Empire Historian Pratt, in his most coaxing mood, adds 346 more pages to the ten thousand books on Napoleon. This one retells the Corsican's career from corporal to coup d'état. Since the story of Napoleon Bonaparte is to history what Ulysses and Faust are to myth, pettifogging historians have had hard work making it dull reading. Sometimes Author Pratt labors harder than he needs to keep it lively. But when he lets the legend tell itself, adding only his "worm's-eye view" (sidelights from old memoirs, letters, newssheets), he rivets readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corporal to Coup d'État | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Gold gave San Francisco 13 dailies, several times as many weeklies, literary journals which flourished without advertising. These combined serious poems with miners' correspondence, frontier burlesque and tall tales with such polished articles as "An Epitome of Goethe's Faust," pirated novels such as Bleak House with condensed news columns called "Eastern intelligence." ("One of the pioneers of Washoe, James A. Rogers, blew his brains out, September 2nd. Cause: discouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Stars and Stripes Forever," March Sousa *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini *Cradle Song Brahms (Orchestration by G. H. L. Smith) *Waltz and Bacchanale, "Faust" Gounod *"Triana" from "Iberia" Albeniz (Orchestration by E. F. Arbos) *Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach *Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg Morning Mood-Anitra's Dance--In the Hall of the Troll King Women's Glee Club of the State Teachers College at Bridgewater *"On the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Turkey in the Straw" Guion *American Fantasy Herbert *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

...Faust, as romantically reported last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Box No. 198 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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