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...make a universal appeal, but one who knows it fairly well can vouch for the fact that it improves on better acquaintance. Musically, it was given an altogether excellent performance, to us it seemed that the reader's part was much overdone, and the whole thing a bit "stagey...
Pelleas and Melisande. There are few more distressing duties than to seize by the beard a venerable bit of literature that has acquired the privileged sanctity of a classic. You tug the white whiskers from their moorings- and there stands revealed a fictional figure worn with age but no longer dignified. Such was the lot of Pelleas and Melisande, a fantasy of Maeterlinck's which continued absence from the stage has afforded it an illegitimate repute...
Said The Sun and The Globe (New York) : "The threat . . . never to play Davis Cup tennis again seems a bit operatic...
This somewhat sullied bit of linen will be washed out, probably privately, at the annual meeting of the U.S.L.T.A...
...problem. The German nation, to all intents and purposes, is in a state of bankruptcy. The proposed plan of receivership can accomplish little as long as the Ruhr, the great factory center of the whole nation, is sewed up in the hands of the French, and every bit of capital which the weak German government can tax out of its people must be handed over to France for reparations. The crux of the whole matter is the impossible size of the reparations bill. France has refused to allow this vital matter to be touched because thirty-three billions of dollars...