Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries passed, the classically prim Italian operas were forgotten, but the frowsy Beggar's Opera became a classic. Last week the Beggar's Opera even made the 20th-century radio, when a company under Conductor Josef Honti gave it a first broadcast over NBC's Red network. John Gay's ribald lines had been studio-broken, but there were still some 18th-Century cracks which strained the broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time...
...Harold Milton Trusler and colleagues performed an autopsy to find out why the child had died under such "ideal" medical conditions. They saw that the baby's tissues were "tremendously waterlogged," her blood so dilute that it could not clot. The classic treatment for burns, they decided was clumsy and "fallacious." Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, they told of their new method for treating "burn shock...
...study of American literature, as far as it goes . . . Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is also to be had in one volume . . . Still another telescoping in Edward McCurdy's spendid edition of "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci", very good to have or give . . . Professor John Livingston Lowes' classic of literary research. "The Read to Xangdn," has now been reprinted. May it long serve to remind us that literary scholarship can itself produce the finest of literature
...readers such little known or unknown writers as W. B. Yeats, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Anatole France, H. G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, as well as the poetry of Stephen Crane, the fiction of Henry James. They published one of the first (and still classic) examples of the new realism, Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Their designers were (and still are) the best in the country: Bruce Rogers, Updike, Goudy. A little heard-of French painter named Toulouse-Lautrec made an advertising poster for them. The Chap-Book started the vogue of Little Magazines...
Most likely to succeed, is Lloyd C. Douglas's "inspirational" Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), sequel to that classic of spiritual horse -doctoring, Magnificent Obsession. Perennials in any group of novels are a certain number which appear to have been written because: 1) their authors need the money, or 2) some novelists get started and can't stop. Such...