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...from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best to help and coddle the old zany. After the Don has attacked a flock of sheep the pair escape but when they incite a group of convicts to rebel, they not only get themselves badly stoned but end up in the hands of the local duke. This gentleman seeks to pacify the Don by humoring his delusions. The old Knight of the Mournful Countenance...
...Flock of Veterans Back...
...providing a $1,000,000 nest egg? He could have recalled many historic scenes: plump little Marcella Sembrich making her operatic farewell; Enrico Caruso singing his last, as the bearded Jew in Halévy's La Juive; Geraldine Farrar appearing in Die Königskinder with a flock of real, live geese (TIME, Nov. 12); Maria Jeritza giving her first breath-taking Tosca; Marion Talley making her début with mounted police handling the sidewalk crowds outside the dingy opera house...
...their Bishop, Most Rev. Thomas J. Walsh, to remove their priest, Monsignor Ignatius Szudrowicz. They cited Canon No. 2,147 of their Church, which provides that a priest may be removed if his parishioners "hate" him. The petitioners assured Bishop Walsh that a majority of Monsignor Szudrowicz's flock of 4,000 Polish-Americans do indeed "hate" him. Unconvinced, the Bishop dismissed the complaint. The "haters" tried to picket the church, were prevented by police...
...Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish mustache. Teachers Collegians flock to his classes. He is a prolific writer, can be counted on for a newsmaking speech at almost every educators' convention. He has taught Education at Yale, Harvard, University of Washington, University of Chicago. A leader in the Progressive Education movement, he lives on a farm in New Hope...