Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is such a wealth of story and legend connected with the life of Cadman, the first English Christian poet, that it would be utterly impossible to attempt here to trace his history. And indeed everyone doubtless knows that most important story of how the stranger appeared to him in a dream and commanded his to sing. Then, suddenly, though he pleaded inability, be found himself uttering "verses which he had never heard...
...rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale. It is a yarn by a scholar of the antique, if thta is comprehensible, a romance by an author who knows the romance of the past and proves that the truth or near truth after all is stranger than fiction. For the old preChristian festival of the coming of spring--in Plakos, the scene of the action, with the holy spring, the race of the young men and the sacrifices to appease a jealous God--on the outcome of which hangs of fate of the not unpleasing flapper...
...Russian servitors, hastens to open the door and helps her to descend. To him she is, will always be, "Matoushka Tsaritsa," ¹beloved wife of the "Little Father" Alexander III and mother of the last Romanov Emperor, Nicholas II. Surely the memories of this once very great lady are stranger, more glamorous, than any fairy-tale by her Danish countryman Hans Christian Andersen. Her new biography is among the most richly colorful of the year...
...complete cast follows: Pantolene A. M. Abramson '29 Prince G. K. Bishop '27 Creonta L. H. Ennis '28 Leander R. L. Jones '30 Harlequin G. B. Bingham '28 H. Dotmore R. C. Darling '29 Sgnarello K. A. Perry '28 King Edward Massey '15 Stranger D. W. Moreland '28 Captain G. S. Lowenstein First Venetian Abbot Perterson Jr. '30 Second Venetian P. C. Sherbert '30 Third Venetian Charles Leatherbee '20 Soldier, Gambler G. W. Harrington '30 Doctor Pierrot E. T. Bradley '29 Ambassador D. L. Dickson '27 Dancer William Wilson '15 Princess, Flaminia Mary Caperton Queen Margaret Effinger Clarice Helen Field...
...complete cast follows: Pantolone A. M. Abramson '29 Prince Kent Smith '29 Creonta L. H. Ennis '28 Leander R. H. Jones '30 Harlequin Barry Bingham '28 H. Dottore R. C. Darling '29 Sganerello K. A. Perry '28 King G. K. Bishop '27 Stranger D. W. Moreland '28 Captain G. S. Loewenstein '28 First Venetian Abbott Peterson Jr. '30 Second Venetian Charles Leatherbee '29 Third Venetian P. C. Sherbert '30 Soldier, Gambler R. N. Bennett '28 Priest G. W. Harrington '30 Ambassador D. L. Dickson '27 Princess Mary Caperton Fata M. Margaret Effinger Clarice Helen Field Violetta Mary Leonard...