Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operatic and dramatic stars, stage hands, electricians, scene painters. A majority of these normally well paid minions of Art rendered notable homage to Max Reinhardt's genius of appearing gratis at the operas, concerts, recitals of his festival. Not only was Everyman played tut Turandot and Ariadne were sung. The towseled German Jew who with Gordon Craig laid the foundations of the new stagecraft triumphed last week at a festival which was recently an innovation (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) but has become a tradition today...
Finally the piece will attract wise playgoers if but to hear Gershwin's rhythmic "Lost Barber Shop Chord" melodiously sung by a negro quartet...
...himself-Gounod with his velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which she had made her first successful London appearance with Jean de Reszke her Romeo, his brother Edouard the Friar. And there was Otello, fruit of Verdi's Indian-summer genius. She had sung Otello for the Master himself, an old man then like a gnarled tree, kindly, restrained, with bright, bright eyes and restless hands. Yes, it was a finicky business, that of choosing the opera. Perhaps a bit from all three...
...unveiling a monument to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn done in bronze by Frederick Hubbard. He told how Tom Sawyer (who was really Clemens himself) had loved in the book a girl named Becky Thatcher, whose crinkling, twinkling jampot eyes had won him, whose enchanting ways had sung a song in his heart until he died. She was the flower of Missouri, said the college scholar; no girl had freckles golden as hers, no girl so jimp a leg. Once she had spent the night with Tom Sawyer in a haunted cave. . . . The old lady chuckled and bobbed her bonnet...
Emerson writes that silly phrase, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career"?silly because the greatness is complete, the "oneself" has been sung. The rest is controversial and boisterous"Walt the boastful, Walt the Broadway swaggerer. It is splendid and touching?Walt nursing Civil War soldier boys, Walt's seerhood and second childhood in Camden, N. J. But it is all on the down grade, all in the public eye and more or less familiar, all but the peace of Walt's profound epitaph?...