Word: roman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of the world's greatest paintings, tapestries, porcelains and a large, handsome private chapel. Last week the public learned that next May it may pay admission-for charity-to inspect the house, the wooded walks, the unsurpassed rose gardens of "Inisfada." home of the late great Roman Catholic Utilities Tycoon, Nicholas Frederic Brady. After the contents of the mansion are sold at auction, "Inisfada" will become the property of the Society of Jesus, to be used as a "house of studies" for young men of that order...
...functions of a Minister to the Vatican from a small state like the Irish Free State are pleasant and nominal. Minister Macaulay maintains a friendly interest in the Roman houses of study of Irish orders, pays a formal visit once a week to Secretary of State Pacelli, spends the rest of his time representing his State at Rome's innumerable parties and church ceremonies. Presumably after his marriage Minister Macaulay will, unless perhaps transferred to Washington as Minister, use his modest Rome legation as an office, and Casa del Sole as his official home. But while his lady will...
...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 Republic. Composer Ottorino Respighi had made his new opera dovetail scrupulously with Livy's 2,000-year-old account. As usual in his later work he had been sparing with orchestral effects, taken pains that voices should nearly everywhere prevail. Many pronounced Lucrezia the best opera Respighi ever wrote...
...Graves is an encouraging example. He has written poetry, biography, autobiography, criticism, short stories, historical novels; he has rewritten David Copper field, has done books on the meaning of dreams, the English ballad, the future of swearing. Because his last two books (I, Claudius, Claudius the God) were on Roman history and sold well in England and the U. S., readers might have expected him to follow up his success with more along the same line. Such readers were surprised, but should not have been, to discover last week that his latest novel was about a postage stamp...
Students playing minor roles are: Benedict Einarson, J.P.F., John H. Huntington '40, Michael Linenthal '37, Howard T. Roman 1G., Richmond Holder '40, and John W. Sever '40. The lead part, that of the tragic Thomas Becket, will be played by the Broadway veteran E. Irving Looke...