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...only the Chicago Company recognizes the value of opera in English (TIME, Oct. 4). The Met- ropolitan has scheduled The King's Henchman for March. So thoroughly English is it, say notices, that not a word of the lyrics but is derived directly from the Saxon tongue. The poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay, precocious young lady of Vassar, who published Renascence the same year she received...
...Born at Florence in 1469 at the apogee of Florentine glory under Lorenzo de Medici ("The Magnificent"), Niccolo Machiavelli remains the most celebrated commentator on the brilliant and ruthless statesmanship of the Borgia, Sforza and Medici. When the Prince was translated into English many an Anglo-Saxon was appalled that so many truths about the baseness of men and how to play upon it should ever have been set down in type. Machiavelli was suspected by simple souls of having been the devil himself, and the adjective "Machiavellian" was introduced into English with the connotation "diabolic." Machiavellian maxims...
Lyric, West 42nd St.--The Ramblers is another combination bill; Clark and McCullough, Marie Saxon; Ruth Tester, and Jack Whiting. Clark and McCullough are superb slapstick artsts, using the tricks of Sgannerello and Harlequin on a modern stage in a modern way. Ruth Tester glows personality. Merie Saxon and Jack Whiting prove that beauty, dancing ability, and pleasing personalities can be combined...
...obtaining honors in English, which is published elsewhere in these columns contains two points of particular significance. The division, which has been made between general and special honors does not depend upon a difference in course requirements, which are almost identical, but upon the abolition of compulsory Anglo-Saxon in the general field and upon the additional requirement in that field set forth in the statement that, "it is expected that candidates under this plan shall show evidence of especially wide rending...
...Anglo-Saxon requirement has been the besetting sin of the Honors Course in English ever since its institution: It was wholly illogical of the department to make this demand when no similar requirement for extensive knowledge of both Greek and Latin was laid down. These two languages, even to the layman, are obviously of much greater importance in the study and appreciation of English literature than is Anglo-Saxon. The new rule in effect makes Anglo-Saxon voluntary, and so removes the evil...