Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Master of Gothic
Hence it is hard to tell whether there is any real flesh left on the old bones of this melodrama. Its psychology seems real and substantial as it carries Leah, daughter of the Viennese master thief, through her efforts to rob a French statesman and philanthropist, to her regeneration, achieved with due self-consciousness. In the final act, when Leah leaves her father and his pals, Miss Gahagan, with Jose Ruben, does some of the best acting of the play, and flames out in a final skyrocket burst that makes a good one-act thriller...
...Regency astounded all London with their debonnaire deviltry, a newly-created title stood for something distinctly above the average. While the recipient did not necessarily have to be a military or political genius, he was at the very least a possessor of large and lucrative estates, or master of the royal foxhounds...
Finally, the selection is a tribute to Mr. Crowley himself. He began as an employee of the Central at 25; for about ten years he was a train master; at 36 he became a division superintendent; at 40, assistant general superintendant to the road, and at 43 its General Manager. Subsequently his title has been changed to Assistant Vice President and then Vice President, but his job has been as chief operating executive of the road with the duty of maintaining its equipment and its line of 17,000 miles. Next August Mr. Crowley will...
...repertoire will consist of but one opera - Bizet's masterpiece. The singers, revolving like planets around the central Farrar-sun, will all be artists of proved ability, the orchestra will be conducted by a "former conductor of the Metropolitan," the dances will be arranged by the "foremost Russian master of choregraphy now resident "in New York," the costumes will be cut from original designs by an atelier in West 57th St., Manhattan, and the scenic effects will be suggested by the paintings of Zoloaga. Farrar and Zoloaga are the only names actually mentioned in connection with the enterprise...