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...Sublimation of Our Ruling Passion If you would see the most typical product of American dramatic art as well as the American spirit, go see the circus. There you will find the supreme expression of America's delight in size and speed, in superlatives and hyperbole. Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" makes no claim to subtlety, to artistic discrimination, to any of the refinements of effete European culture; it simply exults with three rings and a side show in being bigger, faster, more dangerous and more defiant of natural law than any entertainment ever before...
...longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper on sidewalks and in back yards. But on occasion they put on their cassocks and cottas and, either in church or at formal recitals in concert halls, intone the deep and learned complexities of polyphonic music such as gives the greatest delight to the ears of the erudite...
...Harvard Glee Club was a distinct success. For the second time Frieda Hempel was the assisting artist. Her selections, with the exception of an aria from "Der Freischutz", were purely romantic--full of sentiment, even sentimentality. Yet as sung by Miss Hempel these songs were ever a delight; especially so her rendering of the Swiss "Canari Jaloux", and a "Lullaby" by Humperdinck...
...great paladin to watch a game of cards. The metropolis is to have another symphony orchestra. The conductor will be Mr. Stransky. The organization will be on a democratic, coop- erative basis. It is this last phase which arouses the human heart. Certainly democracy is noble, and cooperation the delight of humanitarians. In this new and aspiring venture of idealism and art, the musicians-the actual workers-will divide among themselves the deficit. They will no longer permit the rich and aloof to lose money on orchestras. The fiddlers and trombonists themselves will take over this exalted function as their...
...civilized' New York, most prosperous state in the Union, welcomes him, provides a commision to take care of him and regulate the crowds. And, under government protection, he is permitted to commit assault and battery, knocking a man unconscious while a low-brow crowd howls its delight...