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Tasaki gets the old and new Japans squared off against each other by rigging up two brother & sister teams of near-vaudeville quality. Ko-ume, the gorgeous and traditional geisha, can't hope to land Minoru, the weakling son of a count. The girl who successfully bucks Ko-ume is rich, intelligent, beautiful, and a nobleman's daughter besides. Ko-ume naturally does the natural thing: she hops off a cliff. Ko-ume's brother Takeo is something else, a young peasant back from the infantry whose earthiness envelops the count's liberal daughter before...
Businessman Tasaki says little to the point about the new Japan, and he says it in prose so lugubrious that it can be read for laughs. Sample: ". . . For [Ko-ume] thought if she recognized her love for Minoru, she would present her all to him before she knew whether he would be faithful or not, and with the possibility that she would advance to her ultimate destruction at the hands-of some sinister infidelity on his part." Novelist Tasaki obviously wishes to show that Japan is headed toward a new and more wholesome social point of view. What...
...work. From Mendelssohn's Ruy Bias Overture and the slow movement of the Violin Concerto in E Minor they pasted together a scene in an "opera" they billed as Marie Antoinette; from Liszt's Les Préludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 and Liebesträume they contrived another called My Country. Sample lyrics...
...owner. For a while the German shepherd seemed as friendly and tractable as ever. But one day his front-line viciousness flared up again. In his master's backyard in Albany, Calif., Rex suddenly rose with a snarl, leaped a seven-foot fence, set upon 65-year-old Ume Akazi, a woman of Japanese descent. Before his master could pull him off, Rex gashed her knee severely...
Wagner: Three Deathless Songs (Helen Traubel, soprano, with Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 4 sides). The title is Victor's, the songs Träume (Dreams), Im Treibhaus (In the Greenhouse), Schmerzen (Afflictions) - the first two studies for Tristan und Isolde. Traubel sings opulently...