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...newest thing at the Austrian State Opera House is a one act opera The Dwarf, by Zemlinsky. It is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta, but in places it seems almost a transmogrification, for Wilde's characters are children but these are adults, including the Dwarf who has never seen himself in a mirror. But with the music Zemlinsky is more successful, having produced a score that is described as "full of harmony and charming melody...
...American] Ambassador last night, Dictator Primo de Rivera sat next to Mrs. Hearst, who was the guest of honor. They carried on a lively conversation, Mrs. Hearst manifesting extreme interest in the dictator's description of events leading up to the overthrow of the old regime. . . . " Tonight the Infanta Isabel- will meet Mrs. Hearst at a reception at the Embassy...
...sometimes given credit for having started the Spanish-American war. Incidentally, it was Mr. Hearst's papers which sent Eastern children and nursemaids shivering to bed by the headline: SPANISH FLEET SIGHTED. Next morning it transpired that the fleet had been sighted in the far-off Caribbean. -The Infanta Isabel (born 1851) is the aunt of King Alfonso...
...Boston, will present six plays. Three plays will be presented in the afternoon, "The Golden Doom," "Voice" an interlude before the curtain and "The Gods of the Mountain." In the evening the latter play will be repeated and the other two plays will be "The Birthday of the Infanta" and "Nevertheless," an interlude...
...many years. Mr. Walker has secured the exclusive American rights to Dusany's "The Golden Doom," and this play will be an important part of the repertoire. Other interesting plays will be Shakspere's "Love's Labor's Lost," Oscar Wilde's "The Birthday of the Infanta"; "The Golden Ball," by Alice Brown; "Six Games," by Anna Hempstead Branch; and new plays by Hortense Flexner, Grace M. Lewis, Eleanor Langdon Leeds and Gordon Bottomley. Strindberg's "Swanwhite" also will be given...