Part 3
I am too embarrassed about the prize poem to say more than that it will really appear in the next issue. After dynamiting the judge who was holding up the whole contest we managed to have the poems sent on to the second judge; but it was beyond human effort to get the verdict here in time for inclusion in this number.
The photograph on page 4 is from _Grisélidis_, an opera of Massenet’s given this season, for the first time in America, by the Chicago Grand Opera Company.
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ISADORA DUNCAN
Cesar Franck, Schubert Tschaikowsky
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Paul Geraldy wrote it in French W. B. Blake translated it
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Transcriber’s Notes
Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.
The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect correctly the headings in this issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW.
The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here (before/after):
[p. 8]: (multiple cases) ... Carmen, Griselidis, Tosca, Mélisande, Salome! ... ... Carmen, Grisélidis, Tosca, Mélisande, Salome! ...
[p. 17]: (multiple cases) ... Zoluaga ... ... Zuloaga ...