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Cribber's Ultima Thule...
...career in 1908. Richardson's next book, The Getting of Wisdom (1910), struck a chord that made listeners sit up: how did this man get to know so many intimacies of life in an Australian girls' college? When, in 1929, the same author's Ultima Thule packed them in to standing room, the audience insisted on the virtuoso's taking a bow. To their surprise, the bow turned out to be a curtsy...
Though it is miles this side of Ultima Thule, her newest book, The Young Cosima, will have allowances made for it. Reason: it concerns the most fantastic romance of the most fantastically romantic of composers, Richard Wagner. Wagnerian freshmen who think the Tarnhelm* was something to steer a boat with will take to the book no less than initiates, for the triangle has a dependable literary as well as musical tinkle. In this case: a great man wanting sympathy, a young man wanting love, an intensely ambitious young woman no more capable of love than a piano stool...
From Memphis to Birmingham, from the sticks to the Palace Theatre in New York, the Ultima Thule of a trouper in vaudeville. "Stage Mother" portrays the life of ham actors with great ambitions. Kitty Lorraine loses her husband when he drops to the stage from a trapeze; a baby is born; down to Boston to get help from Fred's family. She enters a magnificent mansion, which might be situated on Beacon Street, and meets her mother-in-law, father-in-law, and sister-in-law; the last mentioned would thrill psychologists who are looking for cases of spinsters with...
...Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...