Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registering for a course dealing with "the literary history of England from the Norman Conquest to 1500" is probably fully conscious of what he is undertaking. The only thing to be done in this particular case is to extend sympathy and condolences...
...Berlin. From 1901 to 1906 the sensation at the Berlin Imperia, Opera was MISS GERALDINE FARRAR AUS NEW YORK. She began as Marguerite in Faust, doing the unheard of thing, singing in Italian in a Berlin house, holding a contract saying that she need not sing in German until she had had time to learn the language. She was 19, sparkling, as she is today. The Kaiser was interested; so was the Crown Prince. The Hofmarshall brought her an invitation to appear at the Palace one night. She must wear black or lavender and gloves, for the court...
Backstage they adored her?the younger singers, the chorus, the stage hands, the musicians in the orchestra, the ushers. She brought glamour to the humdrum of rehearsals. Her escapades were their bread-and-butter talk. She always seemed to do the opportune thing at the opportune time, came out on top. She was the only prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two of the older singers had been bickering for one for weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room...
...assisting the denouement, gets the Gaucho out of jail, rescues the city once more from the army of Ruiz the usurper and restores the mountain girl to the arms of her inamorata. Immediate marriage is in prospect as the projection machine stops buzzing. As a rule, the important thing in a Fairbanks picture is not the story or the settings which are, in this one, fairly weak and excellent respectively. The important thing is the stocky mercurial fellow who rides and jumps and fights (in this case using the South-American "bolas") with such irresistible nonchalance. In The Gaucho...
...casual Greater Boston boy who makes good in the West. Even the elements assisted in a noticeable congealing process as the first citizen of that boisterous, windy, middle western metropolis blew into town. For there persists a feeling that Mr. Thompson has vulgarized bigotry and ignorance,--a thing wholly abominable to the Bostonian tradition of suppression. "More and taller flag poles", is "Big Bill's" opening contribution to Americana. "All the better to sit upon," is the only reply from the birth place of that typically American pastime...