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Rumer Godden is an Englishwoman who lives in India. Last year her Black Narcissus (TIME, July 17, 1939) spun out the struggling efforts of a group of Anglican nuns to do good against the handicaps of their new convent (a quondam seraglio) and the tremendous face of Kinchinjunga which confronted their small and gentle souls. Reviewers' adjective for Black Narcissus was "enchanting." It will do for Gypsy, Gypsy...
Since 1909, when the Young Turks drove out Abd ul-Hamid II, there has been no harem in Turkey. Constantinople's Seraglio is now being converted into one of Istanbul's museums. British Investigator Penzer, Master of Arts, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, snooped all through it time & again, took photographs where he was allowed, drew plans, read everything relevant he could lay hands on, calls his report the fullest to date. Much of that report was of interest only to historians and architects, but some of it makes eye-opening reading to vicarious snoopers and plain...
...were of three types), sometimes with each other. Palace plots were common, and occasionally the Sultan cleared the atmosphere by wholesale drowning. That at least one of these occurrences was of fairly recent date is indicated by the story of the diver sent down to investigate a wreck off Seraglio Point, who immediately signalled to be drawn up again, explained that "at the bottom of the sea was a great number of bowing sacks, each containing the dead body of a woman, standing upright on the weighted end and swaying slowly to and fro with the current." The number...
...Modernist George Antheil's Transatlantic. Known for his direct, challenging technique which he learned from the cinema and the Russians Stanislavsky, Tairoff and Meyerhold, he won fame by staging the most energetic Falstaff Philadelphia ever saw, increased his reputation when he mounted Mozart's Escape from the Seraglio and Gluck's Alceste in Florence's Boboli Garden last year. Hardly had he stepped off the boat in Manhattan last month when he was rushed to Cleveland to stage Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski...
...poorly sung but flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast to the U. S., in a series...