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Following are two of the comments by the New York Press after the premier performance...
...also expressed himself as greatly pleased by the production of the "Blue Bird," Perhaps his best known drama, as an opera in New York. One of the most important reasons for Maeterlinck's making the trip at this time was that he might be able to witness the world premier of this recently completed opera...
While there he traveled over 20,000 miles, and studied closely the workings of the Soviet regime, during which time he met most of the members of the Soviet Cabinet, including Premier Lenine. Among other things he assisted in the smuggling of a million copies of President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" printed in German, into the Austrian and German lines...
...seats in the recent elections. But in spite of this, Gabriele d'Annunzio seems to be able to do what he likes with the army, whether the government likes it or not. To a more outsider it would seem a poor time for an Italian Premier to rail at Italy's allies for falling to support Italy's annexationist claims, and at the same time to ask for raw materials from America...
...half. Flume is the chief and almost the only port in the long expanse of shallow beaches between Trieste and Montenegro. The question is not one of Flume, but of the hinterland of Flume. Is the port more important to the hinterland or to Italy, whose object, says Premier Nitti, "has after all merely sentimental value"? Will not the good will of the Jugoslavs be of more value to Italy than the military domination of the Adriatic...