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Homolka, though the main objective of the expedition, was not the only place explored; less extensive excavations were carried on at four other carefully selected points, all in Czechoslovakia. At Lazovice was found a cemetery where the pagan Slavic conquerors of Bohemia of 1,000 years ago buried their dead. With their skeleton were found pots, ornaments, and iron weapons. At Tisice were unearthed the remains of eight large houses built by an iron-using people who lived approximately 2,500 years ago. At Krtenov a still more ancient cemetery of the bronze age, perhaps 3,500 years old, consisting...
...church where nobody wants to go? A building with some athletic object, an infirmary for the martyrs of sport, would be laudable. But a church? Who goes to church? Religion is played out. So the infants bleat, trying to make somebody think that they are hard-boiled, world-weary, "pagan...
Composition led Violinist Loeffler to relinquish the routine of orchestra work 28 years ago. His lovely finespun Mort de Tintagiles had already started critics questioning whether, with such meticulous regard for line, he could rightly be classified with Impressionist Debussy. The sensuous Pagan Poem came soon after, inspired by the sorcerous incantations Virgil put in the mouth of a Thessalian girl to draw her truant lover home...
...Pagan Poem was played by Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony last week, after Violinist Efrem Zimbalist had given a glowing performance of Brahms's D Major Concerto. Because Composer Loeffler is self-critical to the point of keeping finished work unpublished in his desk, because he scorns cheap workmanship and any form of self-exploitation, much of his music is comparatively unknown. Last week in Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted his Canticum Fratis Solis in addition to the Pagan Poem. Fortnight ago when the Cleveland Orchestra dedicated its new hall Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff chose Composer Loeffler to write the special...
...scene is laid in Oklahoma Territory at the turn of the century. The plot: Curly (Franchot Tone of Hotel Universe and Pagan Lady), a happy broncobuster, woos and wins Laurey (June Walker), who mortally fears & hates a psychopathic farm hand (Richard Hale) in her employ. During the wedding party Mr. Hale ignites a hayrick, falls on his own knife in a scuffle with Mr. Tone. Mr. Tone is held for questioning but escapes to his new wife. There the play ends, with the cowboys singing "Green Grow the Lilacs" offstage...