Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a college tale as U. S. tabloids like to print about U. S. universities is Oxford Limited.* Its author who washes the university's whiskey-spattered linen in public is Oxford Graduate Keith Briant, last year's editor of The Isis, undergraduate paper. Launderer Briant, rolling up his sleeves, drags forth these soiled garments...
...agreeable a romp as anything that had been sung on a Manhattan stage in years. Viennese Theo Otto's frivolous set and gay 18th-Century costumes-worn by opera singers who for once looked perfectly at home in them-made a completely plausible background for Mozart's tale of deception which proves that all women are fickle...
Featherlight, the tale gets going when Jupiter's bang-crash arrival on earth- he forgot the law of gravitation-brings it home to him that assuming human simplicity is going to be a very complicated process. To gain Alcmena he has to sacrifice his wistful whim to be loved for himself alone. Husbandly attention Alcmena welcomes, lover's desire she abhors. "Desire is a half-god," she affirms. "Let's leave the half-gods to the adolescent girls and the casually married." In the battle of wits and wills between the omnipotent god and the constant matron...
...Robert Guggenheim, heir of the Guggenheim mining and smelting fortune; charging cruelty; in Reno. Three nights after her divorce, Mrs. Guggenheim having flown East, celebrated on Long Island with her horse trainer, John Fry Jr., 23. About dawn next morning they appealed to police with cuts, bruises, and a tale of being attacked and robbed of $460. After investigation the police intimated that it was a case not of robbery but revelry...
Colonel deBasil's Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo opened last night at the Opera House and continues there through Saturday evening. New numbers in the repertoire include "Coq d'Or," based on Pushkin's fairy tale with music from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, "Francesea da Rimini," which is set to music by Tschaikowsky, and "Lex Dioux Mendiantes" with music by Handel aranged by Sir Thomas Beecham...