Word: mermaids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who were encouraged to hear of William James' interest, must have had their soaring hopes dampened. Since even James did not really speak, what chance is there of hearing from Professor Royce and Professor Agassiz, or perhaps John Harvard himself from a possible bench in an aerial Mermaid Tavern...
Music Box Revue. Another gorgeous spectacle?another moving curtain, this time a mermaid-one?much color?much beauty?only occasional lapses in taste?Grace Moore's voice ?Florence O'Denishawn's dancing? Frank Tinney?Josephy Santley? John Steel?Florence Moore. And this time, praises be, a revue with at least three uproariously funny interjections: R. C. Benchley's inimitable reading of the treasurer's report; a skit entitled If Men Played Cards as Women Do; an operatic rendering of Yess, We Have No Bananas! In many ways easily the best of all the revues...
...gets wondering why the book should have been written at all. Still, as a sincere if at times some-what tedious portrayal of a partic-ular angle of hobohemia, it is recommended to those who still con-sider Greenwich Village a cross between the court of Nero and the Mermaid Tavern. LANTY HANLON−Patrick MacGill−Harper ($1.90). A broth of a boy was Lanty Hanlon, G. H., from the time when he was christened−in whiskey−to the time when he tossed a coin−" Heads I marry her, tails I don't." Abundance...
...museum was the embryo of the circus " side show." " Curiosities natural and unnatural ": the Feegee Mermaid, the diorama of Napoleon's funeral, the negro who had cured his skin of " color" and who predicted the fading out of slavery, cannibals and grotesque sea monsters, beauty shows and the Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself were only some of the sensations propagated by the " master of monstrosities...
...program for this evening's concert is as follows: I. Crucifixus Bach We Praise Thee Schvedov Tenebrae Factae Sunt Palestrina The Harvard Glee Club II. Invocazione di Orfeo Jacopo Peri Cavatina: "Vieni che poi sereno," from "Semiramide" Gluck The Mermaid's Song Haydn Mit deinen blauen Augen Strauss Elfenlied Wolf Bei dir sind meine Gedanken Brahms O liebliche Wangen Brahms Mme. Homer III. Fire, Fire, My Heart Morley Rhapsody Brahms (Contralto solo by Mme. Homer) Russian Folk Songs. Song of the Lifeboat Men Fireflies At Father's Door Drake's Drum Coleridge Taylor The Harvard Glee Club...