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...Rheingold. To the river-nymphs who lodge in twilight on the Rhine's green bottom, comes Alberich, a dwarf, whose ears have been pierced with the sweetness of their music and whose eyes have been dazzled by the gold over which they watch. In mockery they tell him that, if he forswears love, he will have power to steal the Rheingold; that if he steals the Rheingold, he will "own the world and all its mighty power." Alberich scrambles to the gold, curses love, vanishes. He has his brother Mime hammer the gold into a helmet which makes him invisible...
There was not a whisper in the gallery. They had it all to themselves. Outside, the grey skies of Northamptonshire cast a twilight about the old house, blurring the trees that lined the avenue up which no one came. Everyone else, indeed, had gone long ago, but still they stayed-beauties, wits, gallants, a decent sheet pulled over the face of each in the silence and shadow of the voiceless gallery...
...dress for dinner. They did not go because they had lent their faces to the Loan Exhibition of the Society of the Art Patrons of America. In one corner stood Otto H. Kahn, international banker-a suave, stocky, domineering head by Sculptor Jo Davidson ; near him, in the twilight, H. P. Davison, a banker no less famed, gazed with measured glance out of the paint of Sir William Orpen. For its economy of drawing, its matchlessly skilful blend of rich sombre hues, this portrait was undoubtedly the masterpiece of the exhibition. Sir William was also represented by his portrait...
...fact seems to be that we are living in an age and a land vigorously dramatic. Some forty years ago Edmund Clarence Stedman, lamenting "the twilight of the poets," predicted that the next important movement would be in the theatre. It might not be easy to convince the free versiflors that their genius is fading in crepuscular gloom. But the playwrites have no doubt whatever that they are ascending the skies on the car of Aurora. Young and old, they are up and doing in the tank town and the university no less than in Broadway. If the eager groping...
...chief impression afforded by this film is that all the cows in the world were assembled. This bovine convention purports to be the "last great Western herd," driven from the ranges by the squatter settlers, on its way to wider grazing lands in Mexico. In other words, the twilight of the old West. The idea and the purpose were commendable but the endless appearances of thousands of cows simply became monotonous. Woven roughly into the migration was the love story of the head cowboy and a girl whose cabin on the plains was wrecked in a stampede...