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...finest verses in the world. But sometimes the familiar leaves him to shift for himself, and then he fares very badly." Surely his familiar was close beside him when in one of his bursts of genius he wrote "Rodogune," a play which he himself with right considered his--greatest triumph. In fact were it only for the magnificent and terrible character of Cleopatre, a living presentation of the worst form of feminine dignity, the play would be worthy of the close attention and admiration of posterity. Yet there is hardly a weak point in the whole drama, either...
Among the 40 works by this artist who is considered one of the greatest of living sculptors, which have been collected for this exhibition. It is difficult to pick out any one of two as particularly noteworthy. Certainly the most imposing are the two large statutes: Diana and Actaeon; yet it is in a small bronze the Dancer and Gazelles that the sculptor seems to have reached the peak of his art. There is a grace and skill in the composition and execution, a fragile beauty which leaves one almost in doubt whether such a thing can be done...
...Ames Competition is to obtain the greatest honor the Law School has to bestow...
Finally Count Bethlen weathered last year the greatest national counterfeiting scandal of the century (TIME, Jan. 18 to June 7). Some of his appointees are now in jail as a result of this staggering attempt to attack France by counterfeiting French francs; but no Hungarian doubts the unselfish patriotism and high abilities as a statesman, politician and diplomat of Count Bethlen. On Jan. 25 the new Hungarian House of Peers (TIME, Nov. 29) will assemble, for the first time with the Count entrenched firmly as its guiding genius...
Last week Samuel Breadon, owner of the world's champion St. Louis baseball "Cardinals," traded Rogers Hornsby, player-manager, called "the greatest batter in baseball" to the New York Giants for Frank Frisch, the second baseman, and a right-handed pitcher named James Ring...