Wingless Victory debate over Euripides Medea on Broadway
A column condemns Maxwell Anderson and Katharine Cornell for reworking Euripides Medea into The Wingless Victory. It argues the play weakens a great drama, calls for preserving cultural heritage, and criticizes the handling of the original text and staging on Broadway.
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Jay Franklin Waishington
Medea
Associated Press
Euripides
Miss Cornell
Uripedes
Mr. Anderson
Wuripedes
Anderson
Shakespeare
Mollere
Goethe
New Order
Sodom
Tiaike
Paige
Mt. G. A
Cornell
George Cohan
Conest
Eugens O'Neil
Simpy
Maxwell Anderson
Amipidés
Govden
Wiss Katharine Cornell
Bot
Register and Tribute Syndicate
Catalog of Hope and Seeds for Gardners and Free Trade
A fragmented piece extols seed catalogs promising spring work for gardeners, listing seeds, beds, and tools while shifting to a political interlude about free ports, tariffs, and trade restrictions. It argues blizzards can come yet catalogs offer hope, then pivots to U S policy on customs and free ports amid broader concerns of espionage, walls, and information access.
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Nto
Amin
Pardee
Nothing Year in Berlin and the German Crisis
An excerpt recalls Dr. Aujalmar Selsacht Germany economics minister meeting with his wife in a long reception at the Reichshof praising his financial steadiness. It contrasts his non Nazi stance with the nation’s crisis and cautions that without neighborly cooperation Germany risks collapse.
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Berlin
Aujalmar Selsacht
Germany
Reichehark
Dr. Schacht
Pertans
Cris
Wilson Woodside
Harper's
Pint & Uy
Hitler
Hts
Agair
Schacht
Becky Sharp
Hackeray
Hollywood Film Studio Adapts Operas to Screen Music
An article notes Herbol Stothart’s orchestration of operatic material for a Hollywood film. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy star. Maytime features an operatic sequence built from Tschaikowsky and other symphonic themes. Stothart envisions expanding screen operatic music using symphonies as sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herboel Stothart
Teannette MacDonald
Nelsani Eddy
Neenor
Stole
Tschaikowsky- Ie
Jeveloyers
Mason Nies
Miss Mac. Pormid
Big
Tsenatikowsky
Stothart
Gtrangey
Stothirt
Imus E. Arions
Twenty Years Ago From the Journal Files February 1917
News notes from the era recount a partially disabled American Ling steamer Philadelphia in the danger zone near the British Isles amid the German submarine campaign. Local injuries and incidents include a factory hand at Knox Manufacturing, William Cook's family crisis, a GE plant accident, a sick child of the Davises, and residents traveling between Youngstown and nearby towns seeking care, stock purchases, and family updates.
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W. M. Slattery
J. W. and A. P. Howard Company
Philadelphia
British Isles
Delaware Water Gap and the Delaware Water region history
The Delaware Water Gap area is described as a historic resort region dating to 1725 when white settlers arrived. It highlights Lenape and Algonquin influence, trails through forests, enduring architecture, and the town's status among early summer resort aristocracy with notable visitors.
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Delaware Water Gap
Delaware ‘Water
Tore
Watey Gap
Delaware
America
Linen trends set for Paris spring and summer wardrobes
Paris fashion notes list linen as a key spring summer material with Meygashel Trishtinens used by major dress houses. Designs include sheer prints for evening wear, light-weight linens, plaids in blue mauve and rose, bright sharp colors and soft off shades, prints with tiny symbols, and two-tone plaids and stripes suitable for sportswear.
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Paris
Roosevelt’s flood response and the dictatorial worry
Charles P. Stewart argues Roosevelt uses strongman methods during midwest flood relief. He suggests benevolent despotism may seem efficient yet risks permanent dictatorship, noting presidential authority spans Army Navy Coast Guard WPA PWA CCC public health despite congressional budgeting.
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Charles P. Stewart
Central Press
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Ben
Army
Ahhief
National Service
Coast Guard
WPA
PWA
CCC
Breakfast in bed tops hotel patron preferences in New York
A vague historic survey claims guests favor breakfast in bed over other services at New York hotels, with newspaper morning copies noted as a distant second. The text further references dubious figures about diabetes cancer cases, a Niagara Falls honeymoon anecdote linked to Jerome Bonaparte, and assorted ethnically charged claims about Chinese and taxi drivers.
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New York
Serond
Ater
United States
Niagara Falls
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jerome
Remarkable case of healing with San Cura Ointment
A Townville reader reports his daughter cured of a long feverish leg sore in under six weeks by San Cura Ointment. The advertisement touts San Cura for eczema boils tetter piles burns sunburn scalds cuts and bruises with prices 350 600 and 1 25 at drug stores.
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J. D.hoon
Townville
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American Red Cross
Oni
St. Helena
Ghina
Paty T. Grayson
George Hlanelel
Catalog OF Hope
Liberty
Vrenishes
Hes Bbs
Staten Island
Adyee
Tle
Palace Park
Vineland
Ay Yneterm Quston, Cie
Senate
Houston
Texas
Mexico
New State
Ratcliffe
Foitisn
Hollywood
Calf
Ifn
Itis Nollinger
Knox Manufacturing Company
Farrana Ars. Gr. Roberts
New York City
Cook
Ryse
Prank
General Electric Company
Hike
Virginia
Chief
Harey Davis
Park Street
William Cleveland
Buffalo
Riley Naylor
Youngstown
Dunham
Franklin Street
Pennsylvania Iy
Pennsylvania Scenic and Historic Commission
Stewart
Woah
Congress
J. Raymond McCarl
Federal
Yong
Boroline
Keister
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