Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Miss Braggiotti, feature dancer of the show, summed up the attitude of the cast: "I think 'Fiesta' is perfectly all right. It is Mexico. It is the people as they are. Why should nature be changed to suit those bigots whose minds misinterpret natural actions and truthful portraiture as attempts at immorality and the risque...
...Illinois is a Republican State so Mr. Insull gave chiefly to Lawyer West's party, though when he was quizzed two years ago about contributing heavily to help Commerce Commissioner Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois get nominated and elected to the U. S. Senate, he was able to show that he had given also to the Democrats. Nevertheless, when Senator-Suspect Smith was rejected by the Senate last year, Mr. Insull shared his embarrassment...
Perhaps the most beautiful feature in the collection is a group of reproductions of bibles written by monks of the thirteenth century, the pages of which are highly illustrated in brilliant colors. Two reproductions from the Bible Moralisee, which is a French work of the thirteenth century, show the pages from Matthew and Luke in which the story of the nativity is written, with the margin beside each verse illustrating the content with colored drawings. Another interesting group contains plates made from old paintings depicting the life of Christ as a monk of the twelfth century...
...offer further opportunity to study the fourteenth century style of illustrating the margins of books. The entire collection, most of which is reproductions of the work of the monks of the medieval times is interesting as well as beautiful, for the sketches and drawings in some of the manuscripts show the old medieval attempts to insert the greatest of detail into their works...
Christmas is quite another thing. All the brains that have been racked and paper wasted in vain attempts to analyse the spirit of Christmas show how little any of us know about it after the first ten magical years of our life are over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget...