Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...armed with the deadlier weapon-Dixey's Reminiscences of 40 Tears on the Stage." In the Theatre Guild's revival of The Devil's Disciple, the heroine faints for nine hours. G. B. S. says he meant nine minutes. But the Guild has the manuscript on its side...
...that the audiences were filled with anger against him, that their tumultous applause was ironical. This convinced him that his compositions were bad-that was why the people were aroused against him. He said he was going to rewrite all he had written. He had a large volume of manuscript composition. He hid this away jealously, and worked, rewriting piece after piece, but the rewriting pleased him no more than the original work. During the war he accused himself. He could not fight. He was doing nothing for his country. He tried to make amends by aiding war sufferers...
...East has taken a slap at the West. The People's Symphony Orchestra of Boston played the other day a piece by Saint-Saens entitled Hail California. This composition was written for the world's fair of 1915, and, existing only in manuscript, has been given heretofore nowhere else than in California. Presumably the Native Sons think highly of this music written in glorification of their state. The Bostonese, however, saluted Hail California as bad music. "The feeblest and least inspired piece of music written at full maturity by any modern composer of distinction...
...periodic rediscovery of the Treasure Room at Widener reveals penmanship so regular as to be almost inhuman, on yellowing vellum brightened by red, blue, and gold Gothic capitals. The musty savour of the rush-strewn cubicles still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during...
...travels through the world whither his hobby-horse bears him, sees those things which the faithful animal gives him to see, browses on what fodder of facts the hobby recommends. For years an ancient Abyssinian manuscript. "The Glory of the Kings", has rested among the treasures of the British Museum, and many times has it been translated. But never until an enthusiast for flying studied it did it disclose that Solomon gave to his friend, the Queen of Sheba, an airship which her son, Menyelek, flew. Without the hobby-horse of Colonel Lockwood Marsh, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society...