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...many a musician and many a dramatist, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany partakes of the nature of a ceremony in honor of a saint. The saint is Richard Wagner, who stated-and lived according to his statement-that the artist's function is a religious one, to lead the public mind "by ideal representation of the allegorical picture to the comprehension of the inner essence, the divine, unspeakable Truth." To that end, he composed his series of operas, drama-music spectacles called Der Ring des Niebe-lungen, knowing full well that they could never be adequately presented by conventional...
There she met a Polish artist, Count Markievicz. He was attracted perhaps by her pale, fragile beauty, perhaps by the twinkling fire in her blue eyes. They married?Irishwoman and Pole?uniting in a miniature alliance the characteristics of their irrepressible, astounding peoples...
...Philadelphia, one Mrs. Mary C. Bletcher, artist, stopped a mail wagon, climbed to the driver's seat, clutched the reins, demanded the driver's arrest for driving a lame horse. Traffic jammed for 45 minutes. Police veterinaries declared the horse...
...Prince of Head Waiters (Lewis Stone). The Parisian hero is torn from his newlywed U. S. bride, because her father, of haughty Boston ancestry, cannot tolerate a penniless artist in the family. Twenty years later the embittered man is a head waiter in a superior U. S. eating-place. While on duty, he has occasion to save a youth (Robert D. Agnew) from a blond siren of the "swell-restaurant" set. The youth turns out to be the head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand...
...quartocento and quintocento. More aptly, because painting of the 14th and 15th Centuries did not so much represent a "rebirth of antiquity" (since ancient Greek paintings were not rediscovered then, as were ancient. Greek sculpture and criticism) as a quickening self-consciousness on the part of the individual artist, accompanied by zeal for personal inspection of realities as they appeared to him. The result was a beginning of three dimensional representation on two dimensional canvas; depiction of sky, land, water; desire for self-immortalization in portraiture and self-propulsion in art, as opposed to slavish dogmatism in conception and execution...