Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pudding Finds its Theme...
Unfortunately for this fictional crusade, it does not escape the standardizing influence of the type of mystery story. In the person of Moria Devens, daughter of the murdered contractor, the inevitable love theme enters to bring the story down to the normal level. By means of this amorous tie, Mr. Train holds his narrative within the bounds which has been plotted out by a host of novelists before...
...teach it hereafter to your formidable Press; at least so it may be hoped. There are two neat short stories, one of which, called "The First of the Month," precedes, by way of hors d'oeuvres, that solid repast, the 'Report'; the second, also neat, and more difficult in theme, is "Musk and Melons." The conception, in both cases, is generous and sentimental, but is worked out with restraint of form. Concision, too, marks the interesting lines entitled "Abnegation"; and, still more, those on "Bereavement," which strike the present reader's ear as the best thing in the number. They...
Schubert, 1797--1828--Theme, "Death and the Maiden," with variations, from Quartet, D minor...
...Mozart quartet in E-flat major will be the opening number. It will be followed by the theme of "Death and the Malden" with vartations, from a quartet in D minor by Schubert. A. C. minor quartet by Faure will conclude the program...