Word: tonio
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...Tonio Kroeger" begins where "Buddenbrooks" ended. Again a boy in school, his first friendship and love, and then the author's actual experience, the passions and suffering of artistic life. It is not the romantic southern sky, the "Bellaza" that he cares for. He cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts...
...Tonio Kroeger" Knopf, New York, is a short novel, perhaps the best one Thomas Mann has ever written, certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...
...regular subscription series, the Opera Association will not be able to furnish the usual low-priced seats. Tickets are now on sale at the box office of the Opera House. Caruso will sing the part of Canio in "Pagliacci," with Mme. Melis as Nedda, and possibly Antonio Scotti as Tonio. "Pagliacci" will be preceded by Wolf-Forrari's opera, "The Secret of Suzanne," in which Miss Nielsen and Scott will take part...
...cast will be as follows: Nedda, Mlle. Fely Dereyne Tonio, Signor Giovanni Polese Canio, Signor Giuseppe Gaudenzi Silvio, Signor Rodolpho Fornari Beppo, Signor Ernesto Giaccone...