Word: alvarez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl she defeated in the finals was Lilli de Alvarez, graceful, excitable, spectacular. Disregarding the convention which calls upon the virgin daughters of Spain to spend their evenings peeping from a barred window at the cloaked shape of a lover in the doorway opposite, Señorita Alvarez managed to make herself the most competent female stroke-player in the world, not excepting Lenglen. But the perfect execution of strokes does not necessarily mean matches won, and the play of Señorita Alvarez is always more thrilling than dependable. She will sacrifice many errors for an ace, she would...
...Suggested to the composer by the act of one Isidoro Alvarez, owner of a dance hall near Toledo, Spain, who poured gasoline over the piano owned by a rival dance-hall keeper, set it afire, caused the whole building to burn to the ground, was arrested, jailed...
...Manhattan, the American League of Professional Women held a music forum luncheon last week. Two guests of honor were given the same topic: "What shall we do about jazz?" They were Dr. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist Baptist, and Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian contralto. Dr. Straton rose first, bit off his words, said loudly, severely...
Drawled Mme. d'Alvarez pleasantly: "Jazz is my reason for living in New York City. I prefer to live in New York because here I can find the inspiration of good jazz music. New York is jazz incarnate. Its architecture, its business, its life-all sparkle to a syncopated measure. . . . An honest jazz tune is better than a sermon on prohibiting anything. . . . When I die I have only one request to make. I want music at my funeral, but no dirge or mournful laments. Play only one thing and let that number be George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody...
...What work of George Gershwin would Mme. d'Alvarez select for her funeral...