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In Milan last week a premiere for which Italy had waited almost a year came to pass. Nobles, diplomats, artists and high society packed into La Scala to hear singers retell the story of Lucretia's rape, the people's revolt and the eventual founding of the Roman...
The Epic of America does not seek to compete with the ordinary historical or economic narratives of the U. S. With only four brief footnotes, few formal statistics, a broad brush Adams paints a rapid but effective picture, tries at the same time to show "how the ordinary American . . . has...
The idea of the Religious Film Trust won quick approval: to retell biblical stories in pictures with mechanical word & music accompaniment; to make sound-pictures of famed metropolitan ministers in action; to present such sound-picture programs in churches, Sunday schools and other religious assembly halls.
Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world's obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 years before, dead but 15 years. Said Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society: "It may well be doubted...
The name of two brothers Van Sweringen is accented in countless columns dealing with rail mergers, gigantic, planned, accomplished. Newswriters refer to them as giants, geniuses, masterminds; tell and retell the story of their amazing career. O. P. Van Sweringen was born 47 years ago, his brother two years later...