Word: tho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tho men once sat in the Ivy Restaurant in London. One was a young composer who, after a long, long pull, was on the topside of his hour; the other was Thomas Burke, onetime Hardcress Kid, now famed author of Limehouse Nights. While they ate, they telegraphed to each other in a code made up of the names of street corners, taverns, dives, the memories of tattered times. In this book, Mr. Burke writes, for those whom good luck has left happily unfamiliar with that code, the record of his life from the day when he, a waif as woebegone...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra gave one of the most interesting concerts of its, season to date. The program included Bliss's Color Symphony, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, and a Boccherini 'Cello Concerto played by Mr. Casals, played with great refinement and breadth of bowing, and warm fulness of tone, tho' with none too accurate intonation, at times. Bliss's Symphony is not propaganda music, but it might well be. Through three movements, "Purple," "Blue," "Red," it is highly impressionistic. In the last, Mr. Bliss throws down the gauntlet to the theorists and with a magnificent fugue on an almost forbidding...
...Shogun?a title of military governors of Japan, monopolized by various noble families in turn. By usurpation the Shoguns became the virtual rulers, until in the revolution of 1867-1868 the office was abolished and the power of tho Emperor restored...
...costumes. And the music is not offensive. Brooke Johns wields his voice and his banjo to good effect. Unfortunately there is also a plot-something about a magic chair that makes you tell the truth. The heroine injudiciously sits in it just before getting married. That, of course, makes tho wedding impossible, and it is some time before she can get started all over again on another one. There are also a few clearly indicated wheezes. They would be funnier in Russian. Lennox Pawle is really comic as a stage Briton. Kenneth Macgowan: ". . . John Murray Anderson's loveliest production...
...Bolsheviki continue to export grain. Four million bushels await shipment on the Black Sea; another 1,200,000 bushels at Petrograd. Tho struggle between the peasants and the government has brought about the lamentable policy of exporting wheat while the people starve...