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...York City Opera resurrected his old (1906) three-acter, I Quattro Rusteghi, never before performed in the U.S. Decked out in an English translation, The Four Ruffians made up in broad mirth anything it lacked in old-school elegance...
...everyday routine in an old-school Orthodox home might make a Scotch Presbyterian Sunday seem frivolous. But Louis seemed to have been born with a rabbinical cap on his head. "I can't remember a time," he says, "when anything meant more than the study...
...time the meeting drags to its finish, Author Bentley has somehow tied all her plot strings together and worked out a pro-virtue ending. Old England, the book hints, will continue to bounce along. Unfortunately, Quorum itself has little bounce. Except for the old-school labor leader, Author Bentley's characters are inert symbols of her social scheme, with neither individuality nor idiosyncrasy. Transparently plotted and written in muttony English, Quorum is the sort of novel that may give more kick to a rummaging social historian of the future than to today's American...
...routine was unvaried. At an imperceptible signal from stiffly erect Colonel Podhajsky, eight smartly dressed riders doffed their two-cornered hats in a courtly bow to the crowd. Then eight white stallions paraded in stately fashion through an intricate precision quadrille. The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture...
Died. The Rev. Samuel Atkins Eliot, 88, longtime (1900-27) president of the American Unitarian Association, son of Harvard's famed President (1869-1909) Charles William Eliot; in Boston. An old-school liberal, Eliot advocated Protestant unity, championed the underdog (e.g., American Indians, prison inmates), confidently preached the progress...