You know, id always heard a little bit about the lusitania, but i didnt really realize that there was a human drama at the core of that story as poignant, as moving as anything youd find with the titanic, but also that it was a story which had deep political ramifications. It was a story of an event which really changed the nature of warfare. Cspan the titanic was sunk in 1912. Guest thats right, just three years earlier. Cspan the lusitania was owned by what company . Guest it was owned by the Cunard Company. Shed been built up in scotland, on the river clyde, by the john brown company, launched 1906, made her Maiden Voyage 1907, and really was the technological marvel of her age. It wasnt just that she was a uniquely beautiful, elegant ship, with suites and public rooms, you know, modeled on the grand palaces of europe, like versailles and fontainebleau. She was also very technological advanced. She had revolutionary turbine engines. This was a ship that could cut through the atlanti
The Shaw Festival in Canada is staging the novelist’s 1901 script, discovered only a few years ago. But how to get its mix of satire and melodrama just right?
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.