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Rosmersholm. Since Ibsen is generally considered the progenitor of the Renaissance in modern drama, no play of his can be passed lightly by. Rosmersholm has sometimes been thought his greatest. Almost everyone had given it attention on the printed page, but very few had ever seen it acted. Mrs. Fiske, John Mason and George Arliss did it once long...
...learned audience. This was just what Cowell tried to achieve. It is easy enough, he believes, to write music that will draw tears out of the emotional listener, but few composers have succeeded in pulling a laugh. Not even jazz can do it. Cowell thus promises to become the progenitor of a race of U. S. musicians exclusively devoted to the Comic Muse. France has already started such a line with Eric Satie and his followers, the "Group...
...also, that at about the same time Horace Greeley, great progenitor of the Tribune, turned silently in his grave...
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, famed progenitor of the Curtis Publishing Co. and owner of the Public Ledger and Evening Public Ledger of Philadelphia, announced that he would try an experiment with his newest acquisition in Manhattan, the New York Evening Post. The price of the Post is to be increased to 5? (from 3?). At the same time the paper will be enlarged to 24 or more pages and have an entirely "new type dress...
What sort of fathers are Senators? A statistical Washington reporter decided to take a census of Senatorial offspring, with especial regard to twins. In this respect the greatest father of all is Dr. Edwin Fremont Ladd, senior Senator from North Dakota, progenitor of eight children including two sets of twins. William H. King of Utah confesses to one pair of twins, born last Summer while he was abroad with Senator Ladd. Lynn J. Frazier, the other Senator from North Dakota, has one modest set of twins to his credit. Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, elected by the Ku Klux Klan...