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...glassy calm day and of an old salt who sits at the sea's edge endlessly watching. Again, to show his versatile nature, Dario has written a poem called "Friso" (Frieze). Here classical images and classical scenes are handled in a manner reminiscent of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Some of the best poems in the collection are by Ruben Dario...
Armed with the whimsical title "Madame Axel from Greece," the brothers Minsky no doubt felt their battle to be half won, and with characteristic lavishness they have placed another brilliant and scintillating extravaganza before the public. Of Greece or the Grecian damsel aforementioned there is not the slightest mention once the curtain has risen -- but the title is a good one, and it has a flavor all its own. This flavor is heightened by the customary sale during the intermission of artistic booklets ("the raciest, spiciest little novelty we've set at your disposal in a long time, gentlemen...
...Inclement weather was favorable to what Grecian visitor...
...that ground would be broken in a few days, officially resolved that the project "shall henceforth bear the official title and be referred to as the Hayden Planetarium." The Press printed sketches showing the projection dome rising like a vast moon behind a façade supported by six Grecian pillars and graven with the words HAYDEN PLANETARIUM...
...Keats' Ode to a Grecian Urn," Professor Malthiessen, Emerson...