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...Indians at Ucareña: "Now that the land is yours, I ask you to carry out your part by growing more." Donning a native cap himself, he then sprinkled some drops of chicha (corn beer) in the field-an ancient Indian ceremony by which the earth goddess Pachamama is beseeched to be fruitful...
...Maude was America's best-loved actress. Sir James M. Barrie, a boy who never grew up, wrote the charming plays in which she was best -The Little Minister, Quality Street, What Every Woman Knows, A Kiss for Cinderella, and above all, Peter Pan. She became the goddess of a nationwide cult, a decorous pin-up in saloons and glittering restaurants. President Taft, like thousands of other people, kept her picture in his study...
...conquest of a god would give immortal proof of her powers. The Satyrs push the unwilling Bacchus into her arms, but he soon grows sated with her singing. "The only cure for excessive vocal production is immediate seduction," he says in an aside, and proceeds to administer treatment. A goddess intrudes and soon beguiles him back to Elysium. The disappointed Soprano is certain she can still have the mathematician, but he and the Satyrs mock her vocal advances. "Love is a sickness full of woe," they all agree, and the chorus, with upturned noses, murmurs, "We told...
...that is probably unparalleled in the history of Paine Hall. And Douglas Saxe, dextrously manipulating his abacus, was quite convincing as the Mathematician. He sang with great verve, and upheld the high standard of comedy. The always lovely voice of Dorothy Barn-house made the minor role of the goddess a powerful and moving experience...
Last week, for the first time, the Nelson gallery proudly showed off the results of Restorer Roth's patient work. By removing the 12th century mural (which he carefully reassembled on a new panel), Roth had uncovered a magnificent loth century Tang painting of Kuan-yin, the Goddess of Mercy, done in brilliant vermilion, orange, green and blue. Some 800 years ago, temple priests in North China had evidently tired of the goddess on their wall, ordered her plastered over with a layer of mud and rice husks, then commissioned artists to paint another scene on top. Experts could...