Word: xanadu
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...still recall and whistle his Look Out, Here Come the Damn Police, as vividly as they remember the acting of Schildkraut. He composed the pantomime used as a prelude to John Drink-water's Mary Stuart. He arranged the old songs used in Fashion, and wrote A Kiss in Xanadu, which provided the loveliest moments in Beggar on Horseback. He is now the official "incidentalist" for the serious metropolitan stage...
...Xanadu" one reads, "did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" and lo! immediately "it was a miracle of rare device...
Unfortunately this is not Xanadu nor has there yet appeared any wonder-working Kubla Khan. In twentieth century America all structures, whether material like pleasure domes or intellectual like educational systems must be built slowly and with particular attention to solidity. Thus almost all construction which necessitates broad and deep foundations necessitates also the employing of some temporary shelter in which the builders can work and think until the edifice which they have conceived rise over and around them in its complete and adequate proportions...