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...with minds of their own. Tessa and Gianetta steer a refreshing course, avoiding the Victorian doldrums (insipid Mabel, elfish Yum-Yum) and the Gilbertian caricatures (whining Ruth, tasteless Katisha). "When a Merry Maiden Marries" comes off with admirable airiness and grace, and so does the romping fantasy, "'Tis a glorious thing, I ween, to be a Regular Royal Queen." The right note of plaintiveness without nagging is reached in Tessa and Gianetta's advice to their departing husbands, "It's understood you will be good, and not too gay . . . and not address a lady less than forty-five...
...Francisco's opera has had a more glorious, if more sporadic past. In the gold-rush days San Franciscans favored the vivid, glamorous music of the theatre...
...Catalans can feel now they are true sons of a country rich in glorious tradition. I interpret the sentiments of all of them, when I say that Sept. 25, 1932 will be recorded on the pages of history as ushering in a reign of reason and justice on Iberian soil...
Unstubbed Toe. Still having a "glorious time," Governor Roosevelt moved off into the Northwest where he promised, if elected, to call a conference to stabilize silver prices. Another week of Democratic campaigning ended without serious mistakes. The G. O. P. had hoped to tag their opponent as a radical on the strength of his western speeches but so far he had said nothing wild or woolly. Democrats who had tried to dissuade him from swinging around the circle lest he stub his toe last week privately admitted that to date their fears were groundless. Their candidate was "getting away with...
...Should anybody attempt to obstruct solution of the Manchurian question, we should be obliged to combat such interferers relentlessly no matter who they may be. ... Our kingly way is to guide the policy of Manchoukuo in a spirit identical with the glorious regime of benevolence and justice peculiar to our imperial destiny to control the moral and spiritual advance of the world...