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...idea started rather well. A playwright lost in his youth the manuscript of his favorite work, never produced. The play heroine of his mind and heart tempted him into marriage with an actress of the same general appearance. The flesh and blood lady proved a false reality. Years later, she found the lost play, produced it, killed the sacred phantom with which her husband lived. There was little left...
Such matter as the Stanton Manuscripts which contain new information as to the contest with President Johnson and also the Johnson Manuscripts themselves will be photographed. Almost every month new material is coming in to the Manuscript Division of Widener and the handling of this mass of manuscripts is Professor Channing's present concern...
...Connell-Ginsberg Antiquarian Expedition to Rome has brought back a manuscript of great importance to scholars and rubbish mongers. It is none other than an ancient Hearstissimus newspaper, yellow with age and other contributing causes. From its pages is taken the following contemporary is taken the following contemporary account of the combat between Aeneas and Turnus, which proves that Virgil garbled the facts in Book XII of the "Aeneid...
...encourage young U. S. composers, the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y., offered to present a series of programs of manuscript orchestral works by such strivers. Last week, the first of these concerts was given. The seven, the youngest 25, the oldest 35, were composers Tweedy, Weiss, Silver, Copland, Rogers, 'Porter, McKay. There were four compositions of merit. Best was the imaginative, polytonal Cortege Macabre of Composer ('opland...
...floor, looking for an opening to move adjournment. Senator McKellar talked about Muscle Shoals. Senator Heflin denounced The New York Times for editorially attacking the President for backing down on the Warren nomination, saying the President had been right in that. Senator Stanchfield of Oregon, with a pile of manuscript, began to read a speech about "homeowning banks," but he skipped a good bit of it. Cole Blease, the new and bumptious Senator from South Carolina, asked unanimous consent to insert remarks in the record. Mr. Curtis objected, so Mr. Blease began to read his remarks, telling...