Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these things the late Don Francisco Aguilar knew. He had once made a study of the lute and its literature. He was further aware that Johann Sebastian Bach had written for it, that Georg Friedrich Handel as late as 1720 had made a part for it in his Esther. He remembered, too, that a Granadan. Baltasar Ramirez, had been the greatest lute virtuoso in 16th Century Europe; that the art of lute playing had supposedly died in 1790 with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went...
...musicians their reputations are uniquely and indissolubly bound into one. They are the only famed lutanists in the world. Spanish Composers Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Joaquin Nin have written music for them. Paris, London, Brussels have applauded their playing. Fortnight ago they made their U. S. debut in Manhattan. Last week seven other cities heard them?Boston, Princeton, N. J., Greencastle, Ind., St. Louis, Lake Forest, Ill., Chicago, Providence. The verdict everywhere was the same: that here are musicians possessed of immaculate technique and a fine, poetic sense of unity. Lutes if played by lesser artists drop into...
...Love Parade (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou, dismayed by the prospect of playing in talking films, left Hollywood and went to live in Paris, this picture, which had been written for him, was made over for Maurice Chevalier. A captain of the Guards who marries a Queen finds that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged...
...Poet. The Testament of Beauty is dedicated by the Poet Laureate to his King. Hitherto the Bridges Laureateship has been characterized by inactivity. Of all the line of laureates (which has included Dryden, Southey, Wordsworth, Tennyson) he has written the least official poetry. For his annual stipend of £72, and £27 in lieu of a butt of Canary wine, he has produced one thin official volume, October and other poems. Unlike the late great Laureate Tennyson, he has refused to vamp up verses for patriotic occasions and royal birthdays. When he visited...
DEAR SOOKY-Percy Crosby-Putnam's Sons ($2.50). LITTLE BLACK STORIES FOR LITTLE WHITE CHILDREN-Blaise Cendrars- Payson & Clarke ($2). Dear Sooky includes letters written by Cartoonist Percy Crosby's famed U. S. small boy Skippy (TIME, May 20) to his poor friend Sooky. Crosby illustrations are plentiful. Skippy relates his first airplane ride and his first love, now caustically, now saccharinely. He signs himself "affectionately sincere." Little Black Stories have been bandied around African firesides by big black boys and girls for centuries. The book is a smash hit with French children and adults. Here rhythmically translated...