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...Jinny, who took a carving knife to her man when he done her wrong, took him back when he refused to testify against her in court and the judge gave her a suspended sentence ; Uncle, oldest plantation inhabitant, who believed he had a right to three men's ra tions because he had lived as long and worked as hard as any three men; the deaf woman who killed her baby because her man would not acknowledge her. Expert reporter of Negro dialect, Au thoress Peterkin can get the authentic ef fect even in an indirect transcription : "After...
...Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention of sitting back and listening staidly to a Puccini per- formance. The Metropolitan was housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally been given at London's historic Covent Garden and the famed Paris Opéra. The Paris Opera House during the Second Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been con- verted. Mrs. August Belmont was not in the Diamond Horseshoe where she belongs. Bewigged and betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside sleek Painter Boutet de Monvel...
...Beggar's Opera, "most successful piece ever produced on the English stage," was performed for the first time, in London. On its 205th birthday, The Beggar's Opera was performed in Manhattan last week in a French cinema version called L'Opéra de Quat' Sons, with music by German Composer Kurt Weill, Victorian settings. Last week's showing of L'Opéra de Quat' Sous was interesting for other than sentimental reasons. Famed George Wilhelm Pabst who directed it also made a German version of The Beggar's Opera...
...what all the shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
...Webber-Berlioz; "Pianoforte Solo" (Selected by Mr. Jesus Maria Sanroma); "Overture to William Tell," Rossini; "S Kommt ein Vogel Geflogen," by Ochs; "News Flashes of the Ninties," Magic Lantern; "Jolly Fellow Walz," Vollstedt; "The Fortune Teller," Herbert; "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," Knight; popular song hits (Tara-ra-Boom-de-ay. The Bowery, The Sidewalks of New York, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Daisy Bell, A Bicycle Built for Two, Comrades, Little Annie Rooney, She May Have Seen Better Days, The Band Played On, After the Ball, Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...