Word: loudnesses
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...Manhattan, The Jest means the Barrymores. Any operatic version of that play was doomed to hypercriticism. But when it was sung last week at the Metropolitan as La Cena delle Beffe, the audience arose to whack long, loud, red-palmed approval. It was a triumph. The play is remembered as four long acts of highly emotionalized mistaken identity. For the opera, Playwright Sem Benelli made a masterfully condensed libretto without a situation lost, a point unitalicized. By comparison, Composer Umberto Giordano's music was the trifling virtuosity of a clever parodist? saved by Messrs. Gigli and Ruffo...
...missionary movement became a storm centre when Dr. R. E. Diffendorfer, fatherly secretary of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions, beamed down from the platform and addressed someone as "my boy." Amid angry growls and mutterings from the audience, a loud voice vociferated, as reported in public prints: "Youth has been 'my-boyed' by a lot of old dunderheads until it's fed up. That's why this conference is here." Y. T. Wu, a Chinese delegate, charged that the mission movement is a growth forced on China at the point of the sword...
...Galleries last week and endeavored to understand the mystic symbolism hidden in the 21 large mural paintings and eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James Branch Cabell's Jurgen revealed themselves. Famed Etcher Joseph Pennell was loud in his praise of their originality. Much interest centred about a bust of the famed Spanish Singer Raquel Meller...
Those who have accused Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. of inconsiderateness, selfishness, because the loud though melodious tones of the carillon which he donated to the Park Avenue Baptist Church disturbed their holiday slumbers (TIME, Dec. 7) do not number among them August Heckscher, philanthropist. Moved to characteristic benignancy by Mr. Rockefeller's carillon, Mr. Heckscher made a proposal to the Mayor of New York. He would like to give a carillon to the city. Indeed, if the city would build a tower for the purpose in Central Park, he would order the bells forthwith. He said: "The flexibility...
...read: This is a new age, and a great age. This loud vast machine civilization contains greater materials for art than any of the previous ages of history. And the New Masses writers and artists are not going to run away from...