Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist in a small school orchestra. He was the round-shouldered fellow teaching in his father's parish school to dodge military service. He was the awkward, pasty-faced composer drifting about the city with never enough money to buy his own music paper...
...songwriter at best that Vienna should be mindful of him, Vienna who had her Beethoven there just around the corner making big symphonies and an opera? The Schubert operas with their trashy librettos were chaff compared to it. No one ever heard his symphonies, or of him, an awkward fellow, a song writer...
...tell you the best story I ever heard, even if it is no me. This chap was one of those who think it the thing to go a-visiting the instructor, making throaty suggestions about the mark he has received. I remembered the fellow from midyears. I therefore told him, when he asked for my office house, that on such a point as this he must see the professor, who would, I knew, send him back to me. I knew, by the way, that the professor was already on his way for a sabbatical study of Chinese temples...
...fellow caught the night plane for Chicago and was talking with the professor in Los Angeles when I sailed for Europe. He came back to a deserted Cambridge. I can just see him emptying the mailbox. Someone said he went into the automobile business...
...Army. The action of the play takes place near the Russian battle lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without the restraint which our civilization acquires before a high spirit may be appreciated. His all-absorbing passion for Russia, however, his desire...