Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most marvelous combination of mountains and barren peaks, of glaciers, of rushing rivers, of wonderful cataracts ... the most lovely forests ... a beautiful group of cedar trees . . . wild flowers in the utmost profusion and startling beauty...
Succeeding scenes portray the "Little Corporal's" landing in New York amid wild acclaim, and the consternation of President Madison. Seemingly Mayor Herriot thinks that U. S. "minute men" would have flocked to Napoleon's standard, and that desertions from the U. S. Army would have been numerous. As the drama unfolds, the Emperor besieges Washington, which quickly falls. He then launches a prodigious war of conquest. "Within five years," patriotic Mayor Herriot has made Napoleon Emperor of the three Americas, great lord of all that lies between 'Alaska and the nethermost tip of Chile...
Blanche Yurka is tall, almost burly. As the placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler. She gives a certain effect of languor, but it is the languor, not of a bitter neurotic, but of a temporarily awakened marble slowly reverting to stone...
...thousands who followed the flight of General Nobile and felt the sudden silence of his craft, "The Italia," and traced day by day the rescue effort, knew somehow that there was a Russian boat called an ice-breaker and named "Krassin," which reminded many only of some wild drink, beating her way north among the floes. Perhaps there was in the minds of some a sense of incongruity that a Soviet ship, owned by a government which most people think is the enemy of mankind, should be on a mission of mercy...
...program is as follows: Serenade in D major (composed in 1774) Mozart Overture, "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn Spring Song of the Robin Woman, from "Shanewis" Cadman Silhouettes (Poem by Oscar Wilde) Slonimsky New England Sketches MacDowell To a Wild Rose--From an Indian Lodge--From Uncle Remus Music Box Liadov Fantasy from the opera "Jonny spielt auf" Krenek