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...baseball park on the outskirts of Manhattan, 20,000 people assembled while Kleig lights concentrated their glare upon an extemporary stage erected over second base. Great numbers ot staring children sat in the cheaper seats. They murmured among themselves. For their entertainment, Verdi's Aida was presented, with Marie Rappold as Aida, Tenor Bernardo de Muro (TIME, June 1) as Radames, in the first of a series of open air concerts to be given by the Manhattan Opera Company. Priests in flowing diapers, soldiers in black and gold, caparisoned camels, slow-stepping horses, passed with solemn unreality across...
Elizabeth Rethberg, also of the Metropolitan, had her London debut, too, in Aida. London Times: "The conspicuous thing in the diva's singing is its independence of the mere effect of climaxes. She leads one on from point to point through expansion of Verdi's melody...
...following is the Pops Concert program for tonight: 1. March, "National Masonic Club"Harlow 2. Overture, "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" Suppe 3. Elli, Elli Arranged by Jacchia Solo Trumpet Kurt Schmeisser 4. Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi 5. Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens 6. The Music Box Liadov 7. Air, "Non piu andrai" from "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Charles H. Bennett, Baritone 8. The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 9. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier 10. "Kogawa no Hotori ni," "By the Brook" Seigi Abe 11. Waltz, "Roses from the South" Strauss
...science of their own in order to succeed in war. If it is possible to create a science of war, it may not be impossible to create a science of peace." At this a lady who has done much for Johns Hopkins clapped her hands together. She was Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root, who started the drive for the Johns Hopkins Eye Hospital (TIME, Feb. 23, MEDICINE). That evening Dr. Goodnow, Dr. Young, dined in state at the Maryland Club with many other notables...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...