Word: savely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of Harvard, I would, were it in my power, discontinue absolutely, and wholly break up, the traditional academic system; Harvard College, save in name and continuity, should cease to exist...
...custom, last week Boston was first. Lohengrin was the opening opera there, with Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan, as the wispy Elsa who could not cure her curiosity, Rene Maison the Silver Knight and Maria Olszewska the black-hearted Ortrud. Other operas came from a standardized repertoire, all save Honegger's Judith which retells starkly in music and text the apochryphal legend of the Hebrew prophetess saving her people against the warring Assyrians. Mary Garden it was who prayed simply as Judith and then sought Holofernes alone in his tent, hacked off his head with a great sword...
...Thus the Hippodrome, onetime (1904-1926) world's largest playhouse.* Last week it was sold and soon it will pass save from the memories of people who saw their first elephant there...
...same ingredients of wit and social charm, have followed each other like a string of sausages coming out of a hopper. This time a nobleman's servants, knowing that if they let him go bankrupt they will lose the money he owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped shirt. Wittiest shot of this good picture is the happy ending...
Today there are no favorites, save that he never plays in public any music which he does not feel sure he understands. Feeling it all and having it sure within him has been his great ideal. He practices little be cause once after a long tramp through the Alps he found he played just as well with out having touched a piano for six weeks. Now he memorizes much of his music away from the piano, riding on trains, climbing mountains, studying birds, flowers, butter flies. He does not smoke, play cards nor eat butter. He is 33, quite bald...