Word: magically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...follows: Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini Minuet Boccherini Three Dances from "Cephalus and Procris" Gretry Mottl Islamey, Oriental Fantasy (Orchestrated by Casella) Balakirev Introduction and Processional from "Le Con d'Or" Rimsky-Korsakov Intermezzo from "Khovantchina," Moussorgsky "La Valse," Choregraphic Poem Ravel Ballot Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms Magic Fire Music from "The Valkyrie" Wagner
...program follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach Glorious Apollo Webbe O Isis and Osiris, from "The Magic Flute" Mozart Soloist: J. E. Gurney Give a Rouse Bantock The Turtle Dove Arranged by Williams Soloist: W. C. Atwater Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan College Songs...
...prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers to the earlier Byrne manner. People who remember and relish how Messer Marco Polo was drawn to the Old Man of the Mountains by white magic, for example, will have difficulty distinguishing between florid fantasy and sincere interpretation when it is told how Saul overcame the snuffling, pad-padding, loathsome shapes of evil conjured by Bar-jesus of Paphps. The Celtic love of melodramatizing the supernatural, in sheer romance a virtue but here a weakness, crops...
Since the magicians had brought plenty of "magic rags," from Peking, the grateful soldiers had only to perform the simple task of drawing each a little "enemy blood" in which to dip the rags. Emboldened, valorous, they advanced a considerable distance into Honan...
...Berlin, where I was last week endeavoring to sell the German rights to my picture-history America, I announced: 'Europe is poor, her art and literature are bunk and all she is thinking of is three square meals and a suit of clothes. . . . Europe thinks we have some magic formula. It is really only that we live and let live, whereas Europe lives and lets starve. . . . Europeans only read about Ford, Rockefeller, Edison, portable tea-tables, shoes and jazz records, and are convinced Americans do not have to work to enjoy life. They are densely ignorant of our writers...