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This thing carries by sheer weight of numbers. And in spite of its unusual nature, the tried and true attractions are by no means omitted. There is love triumphant over sad misunderstandings; there is the mad race to effect the reconciliation. In fact, there is no questioning the quantity, and the quality is in strict keeping with the names involved...
...opera. The characters whom Liszt describes musically are Faust himself, Gretchen, and finally Mephistopheles. It is interesting to note that the combination of the divine side of Faust's nature and the nobility of womanhood as expressed in Gretchen are sufficiently strong to vanquish Mephistopheles and to give a triumphant ending to the work. Wagner's Faust Overture is also on the program. This was originally intended to be the first movement of another Faust symphony, based on Goethe's drama; but was finally arranged as an overture...
...Lowell was a born controversialist and she was notoriously one of the most outspoken and fearless critics in the history of any literature. The poetic renaissance called her best faculties into play, and she used them with striking success from the time when her memorable--and triumphant--quarrel with the mercurial Pound began in 1913, until her death. She was never more magnificent than when confronted by ill-natured opponents in a lecture-room. On the other hand, there was never a fairer opponent than she, nor one more ready to make friends again. Yet polemics provided but one channel...
Follow Your Heart (Republic). Standard pattern of operatic cinema is the story of a pretty U. S. nobody with a glorious voice who rises from obscurity to a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan. Since Soprano Marion Nevada Talley actually had such a career, it might be expected that her first picture would follow the same trite formula. Follow Your Heart's chief asset is that it does...
...finesse), the King's subjects have been taught that the "Lifeline of Empire" runs through Suez. This shortest route to India must at all costs be dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself last week that an alternative route to India must at once be got into safe shape. In this queasy moment it was British and it was brave to get ready to believe that the new Lifeline of Empire is better, stronger and more...