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...that she would conduct the last Saturday matinee of its Manhattan engagement. But soon they bickered. Conductor Leginska wished to lead not one but four performances. The San Carlo rebelled-and at the scheduled Butterfly the audience watched the serviceable back of Carlo Peroni instead of the svelt velvet jacket and flyaway head of Leginska...
...evening with the "Vanities". To be sure there is nothing of particular moment in the manner or method of the present productions. They are not even, unconventional-a fact for which to offer fervent thanks. Slops and buskin are still to be preferred to plus fours and dinner jacket of last year's H. D. C.-unhappy memory...
...jacket of "Humanizing Education" is completely plastered with its praises from such authorities as George Santayana, Bertrand Russell "The American Mercury." But somehow I suspect that they are rather in favor of Mr. Schmalhausen's aim than his method. His aim is de-bunking education; his method is almost non-existant. Perhaps the fact that he makes no attempt to stay near his subject is better for the world at large, because not only does Mr. Schmalhausen de-bunk education, but also War, Romanticism, Literary Criticism, Jesus of Nazareth, and conventional morality. The result of these fliers...
...migrated naturally to England, tilting his easel outside a Cotswold cottage wherein Henry James and Edmund Gos.se were busy writing. He painted Stevenson pacing thoughtfully in velveteen jacket. He took Whistler's egg-colored studio in Tite Street, London, and deprecated with amused humility a chorus of praise that arose, swelled and continued without interruption during his life...
...cited as cause for suppressing Oil! Author Sinclair asked Boston police to ar rest him for uttering Holy Writ obscenities. The police sulked. He advertised that he would sell a Bible publicly as well as Oil! and succeeded in selling one to a police man by pasting an Oil! jacket on a Bible. No practical joke, this was supposed to involve the Bible in whatever legal proceedings might be brought against Oil! In a spirit more of fun and smartness, Author Sinclair brought out a special Fig Leaf Edition for Boston, with censored passages decorously stamped out by fig-like...