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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taught still to reverence the Confucian civilization, blending it with the Christian faith, much as Greek philosophy was incorporated with Christianity at the beginning of our era. ... At present the 'converted' Chinese regard civilization as a thing purely material. . . . For this false and dangerous view England must accept her share of blame...
...effeminate chin, one marvels how this musician can grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after the premiere of his ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food. There is his snobbish insincerity: "I have always said my work was superficial." Many people will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They...
Complications are plentiful in the romance when Dolores Casanova, vamp of Spain, comes on the stage, leading Rockwell's valet, Jimmy Walker, a merry tango. L. W. Grossman 1G.B, who wrote the music for last year's show and portrayed Nooky in the "Fool-for Scandal,", furnishes a large share of the comedy as Jimmie Walker. Spanish girls still have a thing or two to learn from C. R. Frazier '27, in the part of Dolores Casanova...
...chorus, the "Twelve Judy Joyous Joy Walkers", very rightly headlined. Almost everyone of the dozen, besides doing splits, turning cartwheels, and kicking head-high, does a specialty of some sort. Together they frisk and float about the stage with a joyful zest and verve, doing more than their share of the work. Moreover, they do it as if it were play...
...latter-day America is the consolidation of the service of God and Mammon. Dr. Straton has lately put himself at the head of the Supreme Kingdom, an organization "to combat atheism, and its cursed ally, evolution", and to raise 1,000,000 dollars for the purpose. Dr. Stratton's share of the receipts are estimated at 30,000 dollars. Membership in the Supreme Kingdom costs twelve dollars if one joins as a "Crusader", 500 dollars, as a "Mystic Knight", 1000 dollars as a "Foundation Member". The general manager for this twentieth century scale of indulgences is one Edward Clarke...