Word: pepyses
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Manhattan. Second oldest of U. S. summer concert programs (13th season) is the Philharmonic-Symphony series held in Lewisohn Stadium. Notable on the program of eight weeks will be the "Launcelot" symphony of Albert Coates, conductor of the London Symphony, which will be given its premiere under his baton. Composer...
Another one-act opera by another British conductor had its première last week in Munich. Samuel Pepys was its name, Albert Coates its composer. Librettists Richard Price and Lieut.-Col. W. P. Drury concocted a characteristic Pepys plot out of their imaginations, had the scampish Samuel entertain an...
* Or for play-goers a half-century later, of whom one, Samuel Pepys, called it "A most excellent play, the best, 1 think, I ever saw. . . ." (1665).
Pepys and his associates exhumed and exhibited on the stage. It has had a long run and must be better than we thought it was. It has its good points and its weak ones too.
And So to Bed was a phrase often penned by Samuel Pepys, who will live in the genial preservative of a diary he kept in the 17th Century as long as there is English literature. Mr. Pepys was not, in the Victorian interpretation, a strictly moral man, and it is...