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Spilt Religion. Soon tiring of poetry, Hulme launched a Tuesday night salon at the home of his mistress, where he propounded to "journalists, painters, Irish yaps, American bums" the ideas that would later be posthumously published under the apt title, Speculations. Every civilization, Hulme held, was based on certain assumptions about the nature of man. Modern civilization, he argued, was grounded on Renaissance humanism, with its assumption of man's innate perfectibility. This optimistic view had been compounded by the 19th century's evolutionary belief in cultural continuity and the idea of progress. To this, Hulme opposed...
...Mistress of Mellyn, Holt...
...second pastoral letter was read, the choir of one Puerto Rican Church sang an Easter hymn, "Pardon, Pardon." The choir-mistress explained: if the people are wrong in voting for the governor, they need the pardon; if not, the priests need...
...forgotten that Costume Designer Adrian had died soon after beginning work on the show last year. A wardrobe mistress' husband was found dead in their New York apartment. The chief electrician was hospitalized with bladder trouble. Actor Burton took on a virus that almost choked off his singing voice, and the traditional "company cold" spread to Sir Lancelot (Robert Goulet), was even worse in Boston than Toronto. A chorus girl ran a needle through her foot onstage. Frederick Loewe, who himself suffered a severe heart attack two years ago, was temporarily felled by influenza. "We are all quitting," said...
...Viennese Baumeister (builder) and a sometime actress who used lipstick and cigarettes in a never-never age when young ladies only pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination. At 16 she had some people convinced that she was mistress to Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, who at Sarajevo was to stop the bullet that started World...