Word: alida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Married. Alida Douglas Robinson, 18, Manhattan socialite, daughter of one-time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, grandniece of the late Theodore Roosevelt and the late John Jacob Astor; and Kenneth S. Walker, Harvard graduate; in Hyde Park, N. Y., birthplace of her mother, whose late father, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, was half-brother to President Roosevelt (who attended...
...Theatre with a week of Aïda in 1917. At Cleveland he planned to give three Aïdas. Sandwiched in between were three "prize packages" from La Gioconda, Carmen, Die Meistersinger, The Bartered Bride and Cavalleria Rusticana. Director Golterman gathered a goodly company of principals: Soprano Alida Vane (La Scala); Soprano Anne Roselle (Metropolitan) ; Contraltos Coe Glade and Constance Eberhart (Chicago); Tenor Paul Althouse (Metropolitan); Pasquale Amato, oldtime Metropolitan Baritone trying for a comeback; Contralto Dreda Aves (Metropolitan) for whom a horticulturist in her hometown of Norwalk, Ohio, has named a giant yellow snapdragon...
Since Harvard is the main hunting ground for Boston debutante racketeers, an article appearing in the current number of The North American Review has a definite bearing on some phases of undergraduate life. "What a travesty it all is" exclaims Alida K. L. Milliken, indignant champion of the simpler life, referring to the modern social swirl and "its youth, the victims of exploiters who commercialize it." According to this observer, the stag line is forced to the demon rum to sustain the early morning hours, while no spark of humanity lightens the chatter of female upon female, the monotony...