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...battle in which the courage and good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
Second week: Monday evening, December 3, Carmen; Tuesday evening, December 4, Butterfly; Wednesday matinee, December 5, Pagliacci and The Legend of the Piper: Wednesday evening, December 5, Faust, Thursday evening, December 6, Figaro; Friday eveing, December 7, Carmen; Saturday matinee, December 8, Faust; Saturday evening, December 8, Martha...
When 200,000 peasants finally streamed into small Alba Julia, Pied Piper Juliu Maniu told them to make a hearty supper upon food which they had brought, said that although the hotels were full the streets were theirs to sleep upon, and finally instructed that all should be up betimes at 5 a. m. Docile, the peasants ate, slept, rose and assembled under the supervision of their priests to take the following great pious oath: "We swear to the great and good God to fight a righteous fight against the Government which is a plague to the country and which...
Much to the disgust of foreign observers, the immediate intentions of Pied Piper Maniu seemed to have been realized at this point. He had not urged his docile horde to do anything. He dared not, because upon the rooftops of Alba Julia were planted machine guns, and quietly massed at strategic points were well-paid troops apparently loyal to the Bratiano regime. In these circumstances, Dr. Maniu told his peasants to wait a bit in Alba Julia and himself sped to Bucharest where he presented their resolution to the Regency.* The regents refused to request Premier Vintila Bratiano...
THIS very small book-really a book let-of some 90 pages contains about a score of short essays on subjects of a diverse nature, ranging from asparagus to goats in Italy and Scotch terriers in this country. The papers, so the jacket vouches are reprinted from "The Piper," the Publishers' monthly bulletin on books...