Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt...
...Shakespeare (twice), Joseph Addison, William Cullen Bryant, William Winter. He drew on three foreign tongues: from Dante, Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate; from Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon's funeral oration over Louis Quatorze, Dieu seul est grand; from a "lucid saying" of the Romans, Sic transit gloria mundi. Two he translated for the benefit of his less cultured colleagues...
...Venus and Adonis" (1598)--autographed by Sidney Lee; "Lucrece" (1594); "The Passionate Pilgrim" (1599); "Sonnets" (1609); and "Pericles" (1609). There is also a handsome modern edition (1895) of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," illustrated by Robert Anning Bell, and colored in, hand by Gloria Cardew...
...Gloria Grafton singing a weird and hypnotic little song called Little Girl Blue, Donald Novis singing a charming number called My Romance...
...theme that saves Butterfidd 8 from being a squalid tale is the healthy, unfulfilled companionship of Gloria and Eddie, paralleling the turbulent, often miserable story of Gloria and the older man. Plain hostility to the older generation is apparent in John O'Hara's portraits of men over 40, since he paints them as depraved, smug, or made cowardly by the fear of publicity, writes unconvincingly of Gloria's family life. Gloria and Eddie, rattling off interrupted reminiscences of childhood, wisecracking and communicating in scrambled, mocking cliches, understand one an-other so completely that, John...