Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon rising every morning," continues the Princess, "I go immediately to help my brother with his fairly bulky correspondence. [Both are fluent in all the principal European tongues.] .... We partake of a light breakfast, and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play some athletic game such as tennis or ride horseback. An hour during the afternoon is devoted to official visits.... I deplore the fact that so many of my girlhood friends have moved to other countries upon their marriage, leaving me with few intimates...
...TIME, Feb. 1). But people, knowing the achievements of these men, have dared to predict more-a big, real work essentially American . . . opera revolutionized . . . jazz dignified, established. Was not this the Laurence Stallings of What Price Glory? of The Big Parade? Was not this the Franke Harling of A Light from St. Agnes given last winter (TIME, Jan. 4) by the Chicago Civic Opera Co., to his everlasting glory, a composer in whose background the most academic classicism had rubbed elbows with the janglings of Tin Pan Alley?* What limits could there be to the possibilities of Deep River? Last...
...looked for trick instruments, screeches, yowlings, offensive percussives, and there was none of that. But even the untutored ones felt instinctively that then they were hearing the best music of the piece. The first and last acts are mostly dialogue sprinkled here and there with an aria of the light opera type, pretty, trite, unsuitable to snorting drama. The second act is different, written for no lovelorn gentlefolk, but for a great primitive mass, sung by them, savagely, hauntingly, throbbingly, masterfully done...
...light of this unenviable past, that the report of this year's chairman of freshman advisers, W. E. Soule '27, brings a distinct sense of encouragement. One always felt that some value lurked in the system of student advisers. There seemed no valid reason why old students should not welcome new and give them comforting and needed information regarding their new environment. Yet Harvard is noted for a distinct reserve. There are here none of the college mechanism which pull the startled freshman, almost unwillingly, into the maelstrom. Moreover, other features of the University, commendable in their conception, have...
...Fogg Museum, water-colors by Frank W. Benson, etcher and painter are now on exhibition and will be shown for several weeks. The paintings, most of which date from 1922 or 1923, are of out-of-door scenes, and are delightful in their feeling for light and air, and in their fresh, clear coloring. The water-colors are lent by Edward C. Storrow...