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...breathless, love-and-adventure, intrigue-and-heroism tale had to be named John Smith remains a mystery. The story starts out in a quiet little English cathedral town, but the pace rapidly grows too swift for that atmosphere, so the locale is blithely transferred to one of those imaginary, comic-opera little countries in Central America...
Died. Victor Herbert, 63, prolific composer of light and comic opera songs; "dropped dead" outside his doctor's office in Manhattan. (See Page...
...story of a soft martyr, who never actually recanted, but tried to mollify his persecutors by concessions. The manner of this compromise was well described by Oswald Garrison Villard in his Some Newspapers and Newspapermen*. The Star adopted the formal tactics of its commercial competitors?screaming headlines, comic strips, subscription premiums. By these methods its business managers tried to gain circulation, and they got perhaps 60,000?no mean feat. But it went further in its compromises; it toned down the vigor of its editorials. It was no longer a piping hot radical? it was still a radical...
There was also a piece called The Evolution of Dixie, which fooled around with that stirring tune, but never actually played it through-and there was John Alden Carpenter's Krazy Kat ballet, an evocation in mild-mannered jazz of Herriman's immortal comic animals. This last composition has a good chance of becoming a real American classic. It represents many of our national ideals...
...confused with Slo Gin) who plays the Mongol prince, might well be a scion of the late imperial family of the Celestial Empire, so naturally does he present his role. Suitz Edwards, the "evil associate" of the thief, is a sort of perpetual comic element...