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...Victorias, and humanities. And for this he follows after him. His old friend tomorrow is to speak on Paris in Emerson F. It is not a lecture on the Paris of today; the Cafe de la Paix, Auteuil and the Davis Cup, but on the Paris of Haussmann, Du Maurier and other indistinct and glorious figures. The Vagabond will go, therefore, and forget Divisionals, Finals, and vacation before the wonders of a house where Trilby once had lived, or a bridge where D'Artagnan once had fought...
Peter Ibbetson, As if to invite comparison with the Metropolitan Opera's recent production (TIME, Feb. 16), the Brothers Shubert have revived John N. Raphael's and Constance Collier's dramatization of George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson. As a libretto for Deems Taylor's music. Peter Ibbetson seemed peculiarly apt, and Joseph Urban did some notable settings for it. The Shuberts' play is not so well mounted. The fanciful story of two lovers who, parted as children, meet only in their dreams in later life and are only wholly reunited in death, is one which ; goes...
...once wrote on her photograph: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more." Holmes, however, has been true to her. A fair thematic idea knits up this otherwise silly and incoherent picture. All is based on an old story of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. All is distinctly British in tone and notable only for the first appearance in talking pictures of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, famed British oldtimer. Now 65, she takes the part of a stern aunt. Most expected shot: Holmes beating up his rival...
George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson is the story of two of fiction's fondest dreamers?Mimsey Seraskier and Peter. After an idyllic childhood with Mimsey in Paris, Peter is orphaned, goes to England to live with an uncle whose chief delights are wenching and lying about wenching. Peter leaves the uncle's house when life becomes intolerable, goes to London where he meets the beauteous Duchess of Towers?Mimsey grown up. Before they part "forever" she tells him how to "dream true," how to live in a world of fantasy...
Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...