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...Marathon distance: 26 miles...
...course of this cultural marathon Persia had ups & downs. She was conquered successively by the Greeks, Arabs and Mongols; she was sideswiped by nearly every artistic bandwagon that rumbled through Europe and Asia. But though her artists copied Genghis Khan's Chinese painters, Greek sculpture and the primitives of 14th-Century Italians, they made their Persian versions as characteristically Persian as an Isfahan carpet. The Persians concentrated on decoration, distorted their figures and landscapes into semi-abstract patterns, prized neatly filled space more than neatly copied nature...
Died. Spyro Loues, 72, peasant winner of the marathon in the first modern Olympic Games (1896); in Athens...
...when he was named to this post, Villa-Lobos has concentrated his energies on spreading music in Brazil. At Sao Paulo, in 1931, he staged the biggest musical event Brazil had ever known by conducting a chorus of 10,000 voices and an orchestra of 400 through a gigantic marathon of native music. Following year, he repeated the performance in Rio's Fluminense Stadium with 18,000 school children. When the National Education Congress met at Rio in 1935 he had a chorus of 30,000 and an orchestra...
...tabloid Julius Caesar is a hit; so is a marathon Hamlet. A romantic play-Romeo and Juliet-starring Katharine Cornell, does well enough; a largely rhetorical one-King Richard II-starring a then not well-known Maurice Evans, does far better. Hamlet, with John Gielgud, then no name on Broadway, goes over big; with Leslie Howard, a big Broadway name, flops. Tallulah Bankhead cannot last a week in Antony and Cleopatra, Walter Huston cannot last a month in Othello. The simplest answer is almost certainly right: Shakespeare is as popular as his performance...