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...Angeles the bone of the contention was doing a nightly turn at the Sebastian Cotton Club. It was a typical Louis Armstrong act, like the one he has given in New Orleans, his hometown, where there is a special cigar named for him; in Philadelphia, where a musician in the audience once accused him of playing on a trick trumpet, enraging him so that he smashed it, sent out for a new one before he would go on with the show; in Manhattan where he once took a phial from his vestpocket, drank the contents (said to be dope) with...
...CLAIRVOYANT?Ernst Lothar? Kinsey ($2.50). First publication of a new House, Ernst Lothar's book lands firmly on its literary feet. As an example of the modern Teutonic school of novel-writing, which lines clouded realism with silvery romance, it deserves good marks. Rustic Sebastian Trux comes to the big city to become a banker's lawyer, but Fate opposes. Millionaire Rafael Bassan, who owns racing-stables and tries to own his beautiful bad wife Fedora, has just been robbed of a fortune in stocks & bonds. Ambitious Rustic Trux calls attention to himself by prophesying, from...
...Sebastian's propheteering publicity leads to an engagement with international Impresario Bimeter. All goes well until the clairvoyant discovers that his divine powers have some devilish effects. A man commits suicide because of his prognostications; Fedora's handwriting reveals to Sebastian what she really is. With the discovery that he had accused the wrong man of the Bassan robbery, Sebastian throws up his prophesying in disgust. He returns to Agnes, a country girl who has kept loving him in spite of his career, and whom he has gotten with child. Anxiety before the child's birth makes...
...John Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (for harpsichord with string accompaniment...
...review it has been possible to analyze briefly only the most important pieces in a collection which is rounded out, however, by representative works by lesser personalities: I may mention as worthy of the visitor's attention two characteristic marbles by Donatello's follower Antonio Rossellino, an idealized St. Sebastian by Civitali, three typical terra-cottas by della Robbia, and, among the North Italians, the sharply outlined profiles of the Storzas by Amadeo, and Riccio's Entombment with the figures clad in classical garments...