Word: alda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight's program wil be as follows: 1. March. "Cruiser Harvard" Strube 2. Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven 3. Fantasia, "Alda" Verdi 4. College Songs Intermission 5. Baechanale from "Tannhauser" Wagner 6. Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky 7. Ave Maria Schuber-Wilhelmj (solo violin. Harp. Organ and strings.) 8. Fourteenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszi 9. Selection, "Rose-Marie" Frimi-Stothart 10. Waltz, "Tros Jolie" Waldteufel 11. American Fantasy Berbert
...Subscriber Tyrrell is employed by the Victor Talking Machine Co. The item in question described how the Company had discontinued sponsoring radio concerts by Lucrezia Bori, John McCormack, Frances Alda, etc., had replaced these famed artists on their concert programs with such names as Rudy Wiedoeft, Billy Murray, Hank Burr...
...composed so much that writing music was no longer an effort, and frequently as he wrote, he said, he was convulsed with laughter. The score is easy, melodious, lighthearted, reminiscent of Wagner iu mannerism rather than in poetry. Miss Bori was Mistress Ford; Tenor Gigli, Master Fenton; Mme. Alda, Nannette. All did well, But the critics, as they hailed their frost-bitten taxi-men and drove home, were replacing their familiar bromides with other phrases: "A scene quite without precedent" (The New York Times) ; "A relatively obscure singer who walked away with the chief honors" (The New York Herald-Tribune...
Married. Miss Anne Elizabeth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, United Cigar Stores President, to Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., famed bankers; in Manhattan. Present were Guilio Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Lucrezia Bori, Antonio Scotti, John McCormack, Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew W. Mellon, Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Charles D. Gibson and 1,000 others. The wedding cake was seven feet high...
...France (French)?Mme. Frances Alda, Metropolitan Opera soprano; Mrs. Irene Castle Treman McLaughlin, onetime dancer; Anne Nichols, author-producer of Abie's Irish Rose...