Word: lyre
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...Statesman and Nation: "What sort of music it is, whether jaunty or sad, fierce or provoking, it would be hard to reckon; but under its enthrallment, the camera comes into play . . . The unseen zither-player ... is made to employ his instrument much as the Homeric bard did his lyre." Said Alan Dent in the Illustrated London News: "The real hero I should call the unseen zither-player...
Shafer, Wiggin, and Darrell immediately announced plans to put out a magazine "by the Yale game." It will be called either "The Noon" or "The Luto and Lyre," will cost about 15 cents, and will rossmble Punch, they said...
...three plan to call their new magazine either "The Moon," or "The Lyre and Lute." "It will cost about 15 cents and resemble Punch a great deal," said Wiggin last night. "We aim to get away from the esoteric and the arty," he summarized...
Personally I am concerned with the squirrels though. There are lots of pigeons, more famous ones, in lots of places, e.g. Venice. But the real Harvard squirrel is something entirely different, even from the Boston Common variety: the genius loci had the same effect as Orpheus' lyre...
Outstanding treat of the show is Susan Reed, the folk song singer of Cafe Society fame. Twanging on her lyre, she narrates the unportrayed episodes of the drama at intervals between the swiftly moving seenes. Her charms, however, prove incapable of restraining a restless audience, hastening to leave, before she concludes the show. This is bad management on the part of the producers, who should know that the average audience has got to have a shock or a thrill right up to the last second...