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...TIME, Feb. 7, under RUMANIA you specify that the red-haired siren who lured Crown Prince Carol (great-grandson of Queen Victoria) from his Royal and morganatic consorts is a Jewess...
...story parallels Wagner's Tristan and Isolde?a king, a vassal sent a-wooing. The first scene disclosed King Eadgar's (Lawrence Tibbett's) banquet hall, its rough-hewn table boards, trophies of woodland kills, crude spears, armor: discloses also the royal widower's conceit to take a second wife. Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother...
Here, Miss Millay strikes a tone of modern cynicism. Aelfrida appears before the royal guest in all her glory, wearing a golden robe, splendid in her favorite gems. The betrayer is betrayed. He plunges his dagger into his heart. He commits suicide in a "nice" way, explains Miss Millay. No fuss, tenor solo, orchestral pomposity; no sentimental worblings of lost love and noble remorse. Like a true Saxon, he quietly takes his life, "for himself," not glory or revenge. Aelfrida weeps but Eadgar says to her: "Thou hast not tears enough in thy narrow
...doctors have abandoned their profession to become famed in other fields. Dr. Georges Clemenceau became a War leader of France; Dr. Leonard Wood is Governor General of the Philippines; Dr. Hubert Work, U. S. Secretary of the Interior; Dr. Royal Samuel Copeland, U. S. Senator from New York.* Dr. John T. Dorrance (see p. 18) entered business (Campbell Soup); Dr. Attilio H. Giannini is president of the East River National Bank, New York (see p. 28). Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Arthur Schnitzler are unequivocally authors, whereas Dr. Joseph Collins and Dr. Richard Cabot make authorship complementary to medicine...
...Elysian Fields. ... We shall talk of our battles to the Scipios, to Hannibal, Caesar and Frederick. What a delight that will be! If only people here on earth are not terrified at seeing so many soldiers put their heads together! ... I bequeath the shame of my death to the royal family of England...