Word: juliets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred Mussulman. The Love of Kandahar: Romeo and Juliet among the haughty, feudmaking Afghans. They are keen-edged tales, scabbarded in language of bygone elegance, glinting fine irony...
This year was the first time that La Colon had been operated as a municipal opera. Opening with Falstaff the present repertoire included Manon, La Boheme, Romeo and Juliet, Parsifal,-excuses for every summersault possible to Argentine emotions. Said Senor Al-vear, Argentine President, present on the opening night: "I am glad that Falstaff is back...
...stage is not utterly overcome yet, however," continued Miss Cowl "In this age of Jazz-parties, it is an excellent commentary upon our country that such a play as 'Romeo and Juliet' may have such a reception as I can vouch for. But it is a rare thing, that reception. And circumstances are making these successes fewer and fewer...
...Venice, slides on, past the windows of the Procuratie Nuove, into the sea; a thousand nightingales awake in cold orchards, anguished with woe and desire for the rose, the white rose of the moon, that the dawn has taken; under a black balcony rises, from unseen lips, a whisper Juliet heard, and Heloise-which tired, tired ladies in upholstered boxes hear again, not daring to open their eyes. Gigli is a friend of Toscanini, who boosted his talents at La Scala, Milan. He has had successes in Spain, Berlin, was once the chief drawing card of the Teatro Colon, Buenos...
Anecdotes of eighteenth century Blue Laws, when theatre productions were banned in Boston and circumspect managers had to advertise "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", and the like as "moral lectures", were related by Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99 in his stereopticon lecture on the Harvard Theatre Collection at the Boston Public Library yesterday afternoon...