Word: virtuoso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story are mundane enough. Elvira, pretty and discontented, has left her stodgy British husband to join her lover, Oliver, in Paris. On the train from Calais she meets Marpurgo, a cultured lace-buyer, an opaque fellow who grows more sinister with acquaintance. He describes himself as "a virtuoso in decadence, disintegration, mental necrosis. . . ." His hearers are usually mystified, end by mistrusting him admiringly or asking him for a match. In Paris, Marpurgo attaches himself to the lovers and encourages their troubles. For a while the course of their illicit affair meanders with delightful smoothness. Then Elvira begins to miss...
...royal virtuoso, Emperor Power of Trinity revealed on another day last week that his fighting coffers are stuffed with every sort of treasure wherewith to buy munitions, including some 10,000,000 gold lire ($2,000,000) paid by Italians after their 1896 defeat at Adowa and hoarded ever since by Ethiopians. That there is plenty of money at the Emperor's command appeared from the fact that huge quantities of munitions have been unloaded and spread over several acres at Djibouti in French Somaliland, terminal of the one & only railway to Addis Ababa. By order of French Premier...
...taste is sufficiently high or sufficiently low the other part of this program ought to be a source of considerable enjoyment. The impressario-virtuoso. Mr. Calloway brings his well known midnight growls, quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience...
...NAKED TRUTH AND ELEVEN OTHER STORIES?Luigi Pirandello?Button ($3). Collection of short and long tales by the Italian virtuoso of the theatre and the continental novelet, boxed and attractively bound...
...travel, and, more especially, those little volumes of impressionistic essays on foreign lands, are often more revealing of the author's personality than of the strange lands and queer people he meets on the way. Here, we are amused and interested in Mr. Guedalla's skill as a virtuoso of the pen. As always, he is witty and charming; and with penetrating analysis he gives a lucid picture of the South American scene. But the fact that he is writing about South America is only incidental. It is the charming Mr. Guedana we are interested in, and insofar...