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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georges Clemenceau: "I attended a private showing of a moving picture based on my novel. After the exhibition I asked: 'Am I permitted to make comments'? 'Certainly.' 'It would be advisable, I think, to suppress the bad spelling in the sub-titles.' ' But they are the work of an Academician.' ' If you think,' I returned, ' that Academicians know how to spell, that only proves the solidity of a legend...
...caused a rupture in our thought but on Memorial Day we should put aside all differences of opinion. "All democracies", he said, "are easily panic stricken and our nineteenth century machinery is not sufficient to express our twentieth century feeling". He said that we did not know how to spell the word "world court". "It sounds too complicated for us. Lincoln was generations ahead of his time in thinking of the good of humanity as a whole. We may walk together today in patriotism but we may be centuries apart in our thoughts towards humanity...
...Boris of Yershoff. Disappointment came in the Tsar as played by Katchaloff. There was no pitiable quality of his weakness, the emphasis seemed almost to go on the comic aspects of his futility. That was the tendency until the last act, when the actor held his audience spell-bound with sympathy. Then, too, the Tsarina of Madame Pashennaya did not have the plasticity that Madame Tchekhova could have brought to it. The remarkable thing about the Moscow Art Theatre Company is that the minor characters as well as the principals stand out as finely etched character studies. The Golub, Junior...
...They are a group of outcast English men and women; a hard drinking, excitement seeking lot; each of whom is hoping that some day he may dig a golden fortune from the soil. They represent a wide variety of types, and yet on them all the veldt has its spell, and instead of being normal energetic human beings, they are lethargic lovable neerdowell...
...program follows: Overture to "Lenore," No. 3, Opera 72 Beethoven "Good Friday Spell," from "Parsifal," Act III Wagner Concerto in A major, No. 2, for Pianoforte and Orchestra Liszt Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opera 73 Brahms