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...Taming of the Shrew," its spring production, would be rearranged in order to make an operetta, with a full chorus of eight dancing girls and a male chorus of the same number. Song hits from most of the leading musical comedies on the stage today have been skillfully woven into this remodelling and hardly recognizable comedy of Shakespeare's, and the cast has been slightly altered in order to fit this new form of production...
...present idols, to which the pens of such widely different types of writers as Professor Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis have previously given form. Few critics however, have seen so penetratingly beneath the surface of the contemporary scene, as Mr. Mumford has done in this book, or woven the multifold threads of the country's history into a more harmonious pattern...
...clock in Sever 35, Dr. Baxter will lecture on "Anglo-American Relations, 1853-60." Anglo-American relations, whether they be studied in the popular form of the Page letters or from history textbooks, are interesting for the way they are woven and entwined into the history of the world. Even the study of the comparatively brief span between 1853 and 1860 should prove worthwhile...
...ascetic, usually clad only in a loin cloth and a sash, was easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept in the open or in bamboo huts along the shores of the broad Brahmaputra dotted with tiny islands. The delegates have no official status, but theirs...
...Paul Claudel a close friend has said: "His thoughts as he expresses them are extremely difficult to understand. ... He fashions words out of Latin and Greek roots, picks them out of all sorts of strange places, until you seem to be wafted on a bright, flying carpet woven all of butterflies...