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...foster-brother Cyrena Van Gordon sang Wagner's siren song in a nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made...
From a group of over 30 theses contributed last year by candidates for honors in English. "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw" by H. A. Brinser '31, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan" by Robert Peel '31, of Brookline, were honored by publication. These theses were chosen by a committee composed of Professors P. W. Souers, F. W. C. Hersey and A. C. Sprague '19, of the Department of English. Their publication was made possible by a fund established by the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...
...Keith Boston--"Pagan Lady...
...With Christian rites St. Vitus, a child, drove demons from a son of the pagan Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305). Nonetheless, Diocletian had St. Vitus tossed into a kettle of boiling oil because he would not recant his Christianity. St. Vitus miraculously escaped from the oil, but died soon after from that and other tortures...
...license, notified police. Police would not reveal the names of the gravediggers other than to say that they were a Newark official, his sister with whom he lives, and a complaisant undertaker. Their explanation: they had buried Sport, 6. Irish terrier, family pet, whom their late mother, like a pagan warrior, had wished to keep beside her through eternity...