Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Author Aldington lets his audience know at once, as they did at Greek tragedies, that the protagonist is to die at the end. The book begins with the death of its hero. On Nov. 4, 1918, Captain George Winterbourne, exposing himself unnecessarily to heavy machine gun fire, was instantly killed. Attempting to account for that last moment, the rest of the book depicts the life of the hero, of his parents and grandparents...
Composer Weill and Librettist Bertolt Brecht are both 30-three years older than Hero Lindbergh. Weill, a pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly...
Lahm Prize. Almost forgotten in the U. S. is Frank S. Lahm, 83, first U. S. citizen to take up ballooning as a sport, first person to give a full account of what Wilbur and Orville Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling...
...young English insurance adjuster, R. C. Sherriff, is both the greatest war play ever written and the finest new drama seen on the New York stage this season. One set, a dug-out, suffices for the play which presents a group of Englishmen confronted with the single and terrible protagonist of the war and inevitable violent death. Their reactions, intensified to the last degree, make for scenes of heart-breaking dramatic beauty. Colin Keith Johnson establishes himself as a great actor in the play and his supporting cast, all men, is excellent. The drama, for those interested in dramatic craftsmanship...
...third play, "Gringoire," by Grenet-Dancourt, is a romantic comedy of the fifteenth century in which the protagonist is modelled on Francois Villon. All three plays, for the first time, will be wholly amateur in cast and coaching. They will be presented on the afternoon of December 13 and the evening of December...