Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Lizette Woodworth Reese, 79, poet (A Branch of May, Wayside Lute), author of the sonnet "Tears," for 48 years a teacher in Baltimore's public schools; in Baltimore...
Moments: A lion mangling a native lute player; a lion tamer going mad with fear when lions, loose and hungry, besiege him and his shipmates in a cave. A moment not composed by Creelman occurred when Tarzan, 3-year-old trained Nubian lion, was startled by the whir of motors in a hidden camera box while Bickford was lying on the ground in front of him. The beast sank its teeth in the actor's neck, shook him, dropped him, leaped on his prostrate body, stood there until scared off. Nine days later Bickford, with his bandages disguised...
...musical as is Apollo's lute...
...plainest reader that, in Poet Van Doren's words, Stuart is "a rare poet for these times . . . both copious and comprehensible." Some samples of his comprehensible copiosities: Where are the friends of youth I miss ? Elmer and Bert, Oscar, and Jim and John; . . . And where are Lizzie, Lute, and Jack and Mack! They, too, have gone and they will not come back...
Last week the crwth, the virginal, the rebec, the fipple, the lute, the dulcimer, the zither and many another old and forgotten instrument was to be heard in the little Surrey town of Haslemere where 76-year-old Arnold Dolmetsch was giving the tenth annual Haslemere Festival of Ancient Music...