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...violin is his favorite instrument. His taste inclines to creative modernism. Librettist Bennett, sticking close to his Bible, furnished the composer with a wieldy vehicle stressing only the orthodox characters-Judith, enchantress of besieged Bethulia; Holofernes, the lusty besieger, whom she beguiles and then beheads; Haggith, Judith's maid, who smuggles the bloody head into the town; Achior, lieutenant of Holofernes who is bound to a stake, and released by Judith, for his disinclination to storm Bethulia; Bagoas, the chief eunuch, who is captivated by Judith's beauty but fears her designs. The Goossens music for these parts...
...have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though Mrs. Rumsey had to pay for having had some stones reset in Paris. For the finery she paid $7,600, bringing her complete bill to $8,783. Said Mrs. Rumsey easily: "I thought I had declared all ... my maid packed ... I neglected to check...
Carleton Green '30 will play the part of the parasite. The part of Erotium, the girl whom Menaechmus prefers to his wife, will be taken by R. W. Hyde '30. Her establishment consists of a cook, F. M. Chambers '30. and a maid, Matthew Hale, Jr. '32. H. C. Friend '31 will play the doctor, who is summoned to treat the supposedly mad Menaechmus...
Bishop Cauchon was scarcely cold in his grave before Pope Calixtus IV excommunicated him, while the enraged Rouenais dug up his body and flung it into the town sewer. Last week, further restitution was made to the Maid of Orleans...
...French have toward Negroes a laboratory attitude, disinterested, refreshing. Volatile Author Morand reflects it in these stories. One of them, "Good-bye, New York!," tells of an exotic beauty who starts out on a de luxe cruise around Africa. She and her maid occupy the royal suite. Her emeralds are the squarest, her mink the darkest. She speaks to only one fellow-passenger, a Bostonian, whom she takes suavely for her lover. A gossiping busy-body spots her as a Negress "passing" for white, horrifies a huddle of dowagers with the news...