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...story has not grown in stature since Adami transcribed it, nor has the music. It remains a rather unhappy medium between Camille and Sappho-with the fancy lady in this particular case called Magda, her paunchy patron-Rambaldo, the innocent youth for whom she flies her love-nest-Ruggiero, and for comic relief-a maid, a poet. Unlike Camille & Sappho the comic relief wins out, Ruggiero's intentions prove a little too honorable-and the swallow flies back home. Unlike the earlier Puccini scores, the element of tragedy is missing from the soft, curving arias and duets. Unlike Monte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rondine | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...list of titles, dates, and speakers is as follows: January 20, "Louise", "The Jewels of the Madonna", and "La Gioconda", R. Y. Robison; January 23, "Alda", "A Witch of Salem", and "Romeo and Juliet", Professor Spalding; January 26, "Tannhauser", "Sappho", and Samson et Dalila", W. S. Smith; January 30, "Carmen", "Lohengrin", and "Tosca", Stuart Mason; February 2, "Martha", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata", R. C. Robinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPERA LECTURE SERIES TO BE GIVEN DURING SEASON | 1/18/1928 | See Source »

...strong boy who lets his victim run rum, then robs him of it-or buys it at a low price with violence. "Muscle men" regard all weaker criminals as their prey. A "muscle man" exploit that came to light last week in Chicago, was the chaining of one Sappho Jo Lawro and his partner, one Jakie Adler, proprietors of the Midnight Frolics Cafe, to iron bedsteads, and keeping them there for five days at pistol-point, until they paid over $100,000. Messrs. Lawro and Adler, evidently having done something shady themselves, dared not appeal to police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Muscle Men | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...thirteen who raised Brooklyn from the realm of antiquated humor to the Utopia of poesy now has a rival. Another young lady of thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG" | 10/27/1925 | See Source »

...compiling a ponderous life of Poet John Keats (TIME, Mar. 2). As she was alone most of the time, her poems usually drifted like brilliant toy balloons, or crackled like showering sparks, out of her pure ego. Three hours she spent once, imagining, chaffing, quizzing, loving three "sister poets"-Sappho, "Ba" Browning, Emily Dickinson. When the purple grackles spent a day of their southerning in her evergreens, she took them personally, sadly. She wrote of lilacs, passionate to identify herself once more with her old New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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