Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Lawrence is a vagabond about the world, and an archaeologist, who has a habit of getting lost. During the Great War he disappeared, only to be discovered at the head of 300,000 fighting men from the desert who were with Allenby at Jerusalem...
...those who went from Cambridge, England, in the twelfth Century and gave their lives for an ideal, lying upon a cross with his head pillowed in a woman's lap. According to the traditional position of the feet of the Crusader he was one of those who never reached Jerusalem, those who did so being traditionally represented with their feet crossed. The woman may typify Alma Mater as well as those women who gave their best to a great cause and made their lonely grief their glory. The two figures symbolize mutual sacrifice...
...words of the hymn should be set to some familiar tune such as "Integer Vitae". "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand", or "Jerusalem the Golden". Further information concerning the competitions or other matters connected with Class Day may be obtained from Madison Sayles, at the Varsity Club. The closing date for the competitions has been set for March 26. Free tickets for Class Day will be awarded to the winners...
Tasso's epic poem, Jerusalem Delivered, was Van Dyck's inspiration for the painting. Armida, a lovely sorceress, tempts Knight Rinaldo from his crusade against the infidel in Jerusalem. The canvas shows Rinaldo, with half his armor off, lolling sublimely in the caresses of Armida and her sprites. Van Dyck painted it expressly for Charles I in 1629 and 1630. It has been in England ever since, until Knoedler & Co. recently bought it, shipped it to Manhattan. Jacob Epstein first saw it in Knoedler's London galleries...
...headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. He had intelligence, sensitiveness and a rare, nervous charm. He duplicated his success in London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted in Candida, Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny. His work was not great art. It was very interesting. Playwright Shaw seemed then an outrageous iconoclast, Actor Daly, his mouthpiece, a daring...