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Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
...stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl Muck and Anton Witek. Tristan und Isolde was the first production. It will be followed by Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Critics announced the productions were brilliant-worthy candles for the shrine...
...latest exploit of ancient and medieval virtues and vices cannot begin to approach. For Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, sorceress of the Nile, is as distinctive because of her wickedness as Galahad is because of his virture. Erskine shoved Galahad from his pedestral and shook the temple of his shrine to its very foundation. Thomas knocked Cleopatra from an equal height and a sickening thud is the result. Erskine maintains the integrity and complexity of his character, and the reader is impressed even if he is disillusioned and mortified. Thomas makes the serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying...
After the Harvard reception, Mr. Pickwick as Dicken's contemporary representative will go to Craigie House, the Cambridge home of his dearly loved Longfellow. Because of the regard with which they held each other as evidenced in affectionate letters and frequent visits Mr. Pickwick will approach the shrine with humble retrospect that here, upon one glorious occasion, Dickens dined with Longfellow. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and Bayard Taylor...
...drives through the Vatican gardens? on week days in a two-horsed carriage, on Sundays and holidays in a motor car. In the gardens is a clumsy copy of the French shrine of "Our Lady of Lourdes." When he reaches this shrine, he descends from his vehicle to pray at it for a few moments. Nearby are cages containing his two pets?an eagle and a green parrot. He prefers the parrot, to which he has taught a few phrases. He feeds them each a morsel and then passes on, daily, for a short walk by himself...