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...Vida Breve, opera in two acts by Manuel de Falla, based on the libretto by Carlos Fernandez-Shaw, had its first U . S. performance last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Paco, traditional scion of a wealthy family in Granada, seduces Salud, a black-eyed gypsy girl, deserts her to marry the more suitable Carmela. Salud would have him back, goes to Carmela's house on the evening of the wedding festivities, sings the warm, fragrant gypsy melody that won him first, dies of grief when he repulses her. On such an old, old story, unfattened by dramatic detail...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, returned from Europe last week, announced that, among other novelties, he will put on four operas never before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...
...Vida D. Scudder, Professor of English at Wellesley College these 14 years, briefly suggested the content of "The College Girl's Mind," by publishing some of the questions which students of hers, in a sociologico-literary course, asked before the course opened. As a teacher of some experience, Miss Scudder doubtless realized that many such questions are put with feigned seriousness and interest by students either in desperation or in an effort to impress their mark-giver. Still, Miss Scudder felt that there was something significant in the fact that "heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed...
...Miquel is neither a great student nor a great critic of philosophy, but is himself a philosopher dealing with his own material−"naked humanity and its secret passions and hidden dreams, its obscure gropings and faltering hopes" Probably his greatest work is Del Sentimento Tragico de la Vida. In 1912, even the King spoke of him as "my friend Unamuno...
Gulian falls in love with Vida Prendergast, who is unhappily married to Sydney Prendergast, son, of Father Eyre's partner. But just as that affair shows signs of becoming dangerous, Gulian learns that his father's health is in a grave condition-"any sudden shock would kill him." Vida will not divorce her husband and partly on account of his father's condition, Gulian will not consider any other arrangement. So the affair ends...