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...their accents, which immediately put them out of character. Sancho Panza, in the person of George Robey, talks Cockney. And Carrasco with his Oxford lisp seems more the bespectacled grind than the heroic flance. These too noticeable incongruities make it difficult to imagine oneself in the Spain of the seventeenth century...
...Smeterlin, Polish pianist, is to give a recital at Jordan Hall on Friday, February first; his program consists of selections from Schubert, Chopin, and Liszt. Mischa Elman, noted violinist, will give a recital at Symphony Hall on February seventeenth...
...Galapagos (literally Great Tortoise and pronounced Galapagos) Islands lie on the Equator about 500 miles due west of Ecuador to which country they belong. Seventeenth Century pirates knew them well. Charles Darwin visited them in his famed voyage of the Beagle. Ever since they have been a special delight for scientists, nature fakirs and wanderlustful millionaires. Within recent years such celebrities as William Beebe, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, John Barrymore, Gifford Pinchot, William K. Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor have visited the islands...
...introductory remarks, the diminutive Irishman occupied himself with a flagellation of one William Archer, an eminent English dramatic critic who was so imprudent as to publish a book. "The Old Drama and the New," ridiculing the Elizabethan dramatists. This work holds that many of the seventeenth century plays tend toward a childish over emphasis of the horror element, and contrasts the unpretentious realism of the modern stage. In spirited refutation, O'Casey tied Webster's "Ducieas of Malfi," and pointed out that the swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones...
...Fogg Art Museum is holding from November 5 to November 30 in the Northwest wing a lean exhibition of reproductions of Japanese prints and bronzes. The subject matter is mainly taken from nature; animals, plants, and birds. Two seventeenth century artists, Korin and Shokado, are particularly well represented. Some prints of Ryskist a modern, afford an interesting comparison between the old and the modern style...