Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-09-24 | Page 20 | Stories in Stamps

J t ST STAMPS j PS 1 By I. I S. S Klein J. J P 9 w Yf l lIN 1 t IN TN N the thc great operatic halls or of Eu Europe E rope and md America people have been ocen charmed charmea by the music and drama of Faust In n the halls haUs of literature the man who wrote the words of or this cl classic ssie remains one of oC the outstanding poets of oC all alU j time He was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poet dramatist and philosopher whose compositions place Germ Germany in the first rank of literature j J Born in 1749 Goethe displayed his genius at a avery very early age All AU AttS B S he could read French Italian Latin and Greek besides G German He studied d law then took up mu music sic anatomy ar art ait and chemistry At 22 he published his first firsts drama From then on to his death death deaU j jat at the age of 83 he wrote almost inc incessantly poems poems dramas ballads bal v lads and lyrics Il t I His greatest composition is is I Faust which two great composers composers Gounod and Berlioz put into musical mu mil form On this drama Goethe Goethe worked from earl early manhood to almost the vcr very end of I his fruitful life in i 1833 ais liis portrait appears lp ap ap- ap pears on ont onta a Q stamp I J issued i in 1926 I 4 Copyright hl 19 1936 NEA Service Isla NEXT Who Vho ho brought the Quaky l rs to America 4 f ft s t