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...attention as they saw her transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan. Her Dance of the Seven Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead lips listeners sat in amazement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: International A? | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

Last night Clare Clairbert, Belgian coloratura soprano in her U. S. début, sang coolly, sweetly, well the wanton Violette in Verdi's once frowned-on La Traviata, opposite Beniamino Gigli's capable Alfred Germont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: International A? | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...infant likes to express itself by making a noise. At an early age, a rattle is sufficient. Later on, much more ingenious methods as the tin horn or drum are resorted to, until wise parents are forced to restrain its wanton lust for noise, or it will become a public nuisance to everyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Lift Up My Finger | 6/3/1930 | See Source »

...Corpse. In Moscow, toward the end of the 19th Century, it was a gypsy singer, her grave gypsy songs, and the sultry, southern wines which drew Fedya Protasov away from his home and a sweet wife who tried helplessly to forget him. But Fedya, despite his weak lips and wanton tastes, was not the total wreckage that he seemed. For one thing, he never took advantage of the passion innocently offered him by his beloved Masha, the gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED-Edith Wharton-Appleton ($2.50). Vance Weston, son of a small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he catches his own grandfather with the same clay-footed goddess, the shock brings on an attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quiet, Please | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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