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...plano by William Lawrence. The program is as fellows: 1. "Care Selve" from "Atalants" Handel Eowa Rosa Bella (La Calamita de Cuori) Galuppi 2. Maniacht (May Night) Brahms Auch Kleine Dinge (E'en Litte Things) Wolf Erhebung (Reflections) Schouberg 3. In Myrtle Shade Guffes Persian Poem (Omer Khayam) Santoliquido In the Silence of Night Rachmaninoff 4. Negro Spirituals I've got a Home in that Rock Set Down I Got a Robe You Hear de Lambs a Cryin...
Lilies of the Field took its title out of the Bible and its morals out of Omar Khayam. Again it is a play (of the same name) cinemized, but the maidenly morals of Hollywood stop the movie just short of the play. There is Corinne Griffith, playing an innocent wife, and then there is her rake of a husband. Naturally, under such circumstances it is the wife not the husband, who is caught in a compromising situation and ruthlessly divorced from husband and child. Then comes the handsome Conway Tearle, sweet and unmarried. He offers her an apartment-to test...
Those who recognize the catholicity which the trustees of the Library have shown in the selection of books will be surprised to learn that the poems of the Persian poet, Omar Khayam, are not on its shelves. The poems of Saadi and Hafiz are there, but, notwithstanding the fact that there is an elegant English translation of this astronomer poet, none of his works can be found in the College Library except his Algebra, and a few extracts from his verses published in the North American Review...
...Omar Khayam, or Omar the Tent-maker, is the Horace of Persia. He was born in Khorassan, about the middle of the eleventh century of our era, and died in the year 1123. His life was passed in astronomical studies, and he probably composed his quatrains, which are bound together by no logical connection, in the intervals of his professional work...