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Last week the second volume dealing with the O'Neills did both. The best of James Farrell's books to date, No Star Is Lost is also his mellowest and most imaginative, has little of the rancor (so strong that it sometimes seemed Author Farrell hated all his characters and all their kin) that marred his previous novels. No Star Is Lost begins in 1914, when the O'Neills are penniless again, when the family has grown to include two daughters and five sons, and when young Danny O'Neill is living with the grandmother...
...second night, with Society's annual mass raid over for the year, Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier, first of the forthcoming three-opera "Strauss cycle," provided Soprano Lotte Lehmann with one of her most famous and mellowest roles, that of the absent Field Marshal's wife. On the third night debuts began...
...coast about half way between Los Angeles and San Diego, was already well seasoned when Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Two Years Before the Mast) visited it last century, called it the loneliest and loveliest spot he had ever seen. Of the legends clustered about this historic shrine mellowest is the tale that for 160 years migrating swallows have arrived at the Mission each year on March 19 (St Joseph's Day), flown south again on Oct. 23 (St. John's Day). Last week on March 19, for the first time the swallows' arrival was recorded with newsreel...
...London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time...
...mellowest mood, the Elder Statesman added: "Royal marriages for political reasons are out of date. Even a king has now the right to choose for his queen the woman that he loves. It is true beyond a doubt that all our people ardently desire to have a queen...