Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...North Dakota sheriff for an article which he claimed he did not write), Hollywood and two months ago, Mystic Magazine, an idea conceived in Paris by Mrs. Fawcett. Mystic Magazine capitalizes the current faddish interest in astrology and (to quote Variety) "mitt-reading." Its first issue carried an "exclusive" spirit message from the late Conan Doyle -"scooping the Cosmopolitan by a full month." Captain Billy is frankly worshipful toward his Whiz Bang. Wherever he travels he sends back great sheaves of ribald jokes and also, with intense pride, hist monthly editorial: "Drippings from the Fawcett." In elaborate metaphor he voices...
Seventeen years ago the primitive, pagan rhythms of Le Sacre du Printemps established Russian Igor Stravinsky as the most original, most compelling of modern composers. Last week in Boston his Symphonic de Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms), in spirit far removed from his sensual celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant...
...Thompson-with every 25 purchase. Those who draw the winning tickets will receive prizes amounting to $1,000,000. Aware that the Post Office Department would consider his scheme illegal, said amazing Mayor Thompson: "I'm going to a medium who's in touch regularly with the spirit of Grover Cleveland. I'll tell the medium to get in touch with Grover Cleveland and I'll tell Cleveland: 'Grover, you were President of the United States during a hard-time period. We're going to have our drawing here in Chicago...
...consumption. But most of the detail has been revamped, modernized. Important to the plot is the repeated jangling of a telephone bell. The costumes are modern. Mary Garden wears pajamas in one scene, in another a gorgeous gold-cloth gown of latest cut, bright with blood-red camellias. The spirit of the music is modern: a waltz theme winds through it all. There is a jazz scene in the second act where saxophones, two pianos and a banjo are used. Unlike Traviata there are no set arias, duos or trios. The characters do not express themselves in formal, stilted song...
There is also an unusually fine "Holy the evening will be an utter failure; accept the play in the spirit in which it was written and in the mode in which it is likely to be interpreted by undergraduates flaccid before skillful direction, and one is sure to find the "indulgence" ample fare. "Cake" may not cause the rafters of Brattle Hall to ring with unrestrained laughter, but there are certain to be wry smiles up Cantabrigian sleeves, as this or that familiar platitude is aired in the quaint garb which Mr. Bynner has provided. Like the three-year...