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...damsels and the only first class playhouse in which one smokes, has never witnessed more elaborate proceedings. It seemed as if the chorus girls must have been drafted, there were so many of them. There were more principals than there were generals in the War. There were masses of gorgeous scenery and scores of swoops for the trombones. There were cool costumes and warm dancing. In fact there was everything but wit. So tremendous was the show that the lack of laughter glared ominously. The elaboration bore down upon the spectators' sensibilities and became oppressive. Accordingly, The Great Temptations stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...Alban Mountains, 300 feet beneath the placid waves of the Lago di Nemi,* there are known to rest two gorgeous pleasure barges built for the mad Emperor Caligula, loaded with many of his treasures and sunk inexplicably in this volcanic lake. Last week Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: To Drain a Volcano | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...upper end of Manhattan Island there are arising some gorgeous, massive buildings in an Americanized Byzantine manner- rigid facades; a squatty dome; ornate yet severe decoration. They represent the first independent stand on education ever taken by Jewry in the 2,000 years of its exile. Out of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary has grown the Yitzchok Elchanan Yeshivah, in which there will be the first Jewish college ever established in the U. S., equipped to grant "the same academic degrees as other American colleges in a background thoroughly Jewish and thoroughly American in spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: To Yale, a Prince | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...same criticism. I can sympathize with his point of view. Oxford is so vital, genial, and beautiful that few Americans with any sensibility can visit it without the feeling "Why cannot we have this in America?" That was how I felt after three weeks there, in the gorgeous summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORISON, THREE YEARS AT OXFORD, OPPOSES COUNCIL PLAN FOR DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY INTO NUMEROUS SMALLER COLLEGES | 5/7/1926 | See Source »

...follows: "Sheridan to Robertson," by Ernest Bradle Watson '19, "Antoine and the Theatre Libre," by Samuel M. Waxman '07. "Essays of Montaigne," by George B. Ives, "The Wedgwood Medallion of Samuel Johnson," by Chauncey B. Tinker. "The Letters of Tobias Smollett M. D.," edited by Edward S. Noyes "A Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions," edited by Hyder E. Rollins, "Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy," edited by Franz Richby, "Harvard Studies in Classical Philology," by a Committee of the Classical Instructors of Harvard University, "Four Introductory Lectures," "La Methode Comparative en Linguistique Historique," by A. Meillet, "Custom and Right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR OF UNIVERSITY PRESS BRINGS FORTH LARGE BOOK LIST | 5/5/1926 | See Source »

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