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...great deal of pussyfooting was indulged in by Rumanian officials at Washington and Paris as to whether Her Majesty might accept a reputed offer to appear for a day before Hollywood cinema cameras as the Queen in Tolstoy's Resurrection-for $25,000. Said Her Majesty archly to newsgatherers: "I might perhaps have obtained a better engagement than that. But let us not jest! It is false, this report. Absolutely false...
...other as "blood brothers," thereby causing his political defeat through lack of unity. Well he knew the Brahmanic conception of an indelible hereditary stain resting upon definite groups of men. And, of course, they could ask him to tell them of literature. Who better than Gandhi knew Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy? Or the science of government? Gandhi knew well Britain's jails. Then religion- how the Mahatma's deep oriental mysticism had swayed India! But which religion should he be asked to expound? Hinduism? Buddhism? Mohammedanism ? Back trooped the brown-skinned pupils and delivered their choice. Forthwith last week...
...Tolstoy Opera...
...Chicago, in the huge Auditorium, occasional playhouse of the Chicago Civic Opera troupe, a resplendent crowd ogled one another, visited back and forth, chatted and chattered. They were waiting for the curtain to rise on the world's premiere of Resurrection, the opera by Franco Alfano based on Tolstoy's pity-evoking novel, the opera personally selected last summer by Mary Garden shrewd in showmanship, for her next important vehicle. The performance was called a triumph...
Everyone knows Tolstoy's story of country-bred Catering's betrayal by swaggering Prince Dimitri, how she fell to the gloomy, filthy Russian depths, how Dimitri found her in a Petrograd prison, how she was redeemed. Truly a melodramatic story, long drawn out by Tolstoy in psychological analysis and pragmatical moralizing, but in this opera retold with truly theatrical effectiveness in only four episodes. Therein, to music that was "strong, eloquently melodious, entirely southern despite the artful use of Slavic folk themes to create and sustain Russian atmosphere," Miss Garden found as good a part...