Word: european
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...
...fashioned memories; Huneker's men of the hour were but ghosts. It is significant that not a single subject of these selected essays was a U. S. citizen. "Essentially and inescapably civilized" is what Editor Mencken calls Critic Huneker, by way of congratulating him on being, in effect, European...
...reasons for locating the Bank in Switzerland are clear, and it is difficult to see how the balance could be overweighted except in favor of some other country which holds the same neutral position as Switzerland, and at the same time boasts an age-old reputation as a European banking center...
...Cabot '92, former Headmaster of St. George's School, and now Chancellor of the Avon Old Farms School at Avon, Conn., will deliver the second of a series of four lectures on European schools in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock on Thursday evening. His subject will be "French Schools...
Things to Be Done. Syracuse University needs $30,000 more for its surveying and mapping studies. It will get it by New Year's Day, said Harry Guggenheim last week. The European aeronautical societies each want $10,000. They will...