Word: marat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...geophagists, or 'dirt eaters' who came from leagues around to partake of the succulent and nutritive clay still to be found in this part of Paris. . . . Apparently clay eating continued in Montmartre until comparatively recent times. . . . For example, when Charlotte Corday assassinated the revolutionary demagogue, Jean Paul Marat on July 13, 1793, she may not have known that he had just quaffed a decanter full of powdered Montmartre clay steeped in almond water...
Pietro Mascagni will conduct, for the first time in the U. S., his opera, II Piccolo Marat...
Composer Mascagni believes that all his operas are as good, if not better, than Cavalleria, Rusticana. II Piccolo Marat, for instance, which has been given in Rome and Buenos Aires though never in Manhattan, is a far neater piece of construction; four interweaving orchestral tones, built on four connected themes, knit the score to- gether; the scene is Nantes during the Terror, the villain, one Orso, a guillotining cockaded butcher, the heroine is his daughter, the hero, a nobleman so pure that he is called "The Little Marat." What more could one ask? And yet Pietro Mascagni, now walking...
Arrived opposite the forbidding stone gateway of No. 55, the 200 ragamuffins sobered to an expectant hush. The Palais before them once served the exquisite Pompadour as a jeweled setting for dalliance. It provided the doughty Citizen Marat with the four walls and roof necessary even to revolutionaries. There the first and third Napoleons reigned for an hour amid the gaudy trappings of essentially bourgeois kings...
Pietro Mascagni, due to arrive in the U. S. in a few days, together with the score of his new opera, II Piccolo Marat, and a company of Italian singers (TIME, July 28) is not coming, after all. Something very unfortunate has undoubtedly occurred. Said Mascagni, according to a Budapest despatch: "I had a contract to go to New York, but I am not going. New Yorkers don't know anything about Art. They have money, but no conception of artistic things. I know what I am saying; I am saying what is in my heart. I sent...