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...hundred thousand Britishers gathered at the Crystal Palace, near London, in 1859 to honor the memory of Composer George Frederick Handel. An able tenor was to climax the music festival. The audience waited; he did not appear. Suddenly, a voice, clearer and purer than any they had ever heard, swelled through Crystal Palace. They saw a choir boy of 14, Edward Lloyd...
...mawk, but these moments are rare and in them quiet ecstasy is equally imminent. Some may say that the frustrated or guilty woman appears rather more frequently in Benefield stories than seems natural; that he is thus limited, perhaps hipped. But not even Hawthorne touched this subject with purer compassion; and a man must do what he can do best. Furthermore, there is that enveloping quality about Author Benefield's troubled situations that reaches far beyond the particular persons and scenes to include all men's troubles, of all kinds. Finally, there is gentle, whimsical accuracy of detail...
Kiki. Norma Talmadge has seized upon the extraordinary stage success so long the exclusive property of Lenore Ulric. Miss Talmadge makes that lovely rowdy even purer and more wholesome than she was on the stage, more so than she ever could have been in her native Paris. Little matters of plausibility, however, cannot be cited as adverse criticism of slapstick comedy, for such Kiki has become and as such it is eminently entertaining...
...should I desire the presence of a band to blare its fulsome farewells into my ears; the true aesthetic vagabond must ever shrink from occasions of such banal blasts and boomings. But at 10 o'clock this morning I shall be in the Music Building to hear the finer, purer strains of Brahms' Violin Sonata when it is played in Professor Spalding's Music...
...thousands of men and women will press this book to their bosoms with thanksgiving. Its morals, its figures of Vice and Virtue, could not be made clearer if they were printed in the block capitals and bright colors of a primer. The readers are practically certain to live purer, finer, braver lives afterwards, as are the millions, too unenlightened to buy the book, who will see it at the cinema...