Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago. It is rapidly becoming a convention for the critics of Chicago to hail every week as a great artist some singer hitherto ungraced by U.S. laurels. Two weeks ago it was Baritone Bonelli. Last week it was Luella Melms, coloratura singer, born in Appleton, Wis. She made her debut in Rigoletto. Staid people have been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch...
...Manhattan. Basso Feodor Chaliapin came back to the Metropolitan as a guest artist in Boris, sang superbly, blew kisses to the gallery from the tips of his enormous fingers, went away to drink a glass of Chianti with friends...
...week the same orchestra, the same soloist were heard again in Manhattan. Because he felt himself a comparative newcomer, Leopold Stokowski handed his stick to Concertmaster Thaddeus Rich who, a better conductor than most concertmasters, led the first number. Then Mr. Gabrilowitsch, a more mature and no less brilliant artist than he was 25 years ago, sonorously assisted in interpreting the rugged, lordly and immortal Tschaikowsky's B-flat Minor Concerto...
...want to express the appreciation many of us here feel for your way of editing the news. You treat affairs like an artist. . . . The dailies dump the news. We scan their columns and wait for TIME to tell. For you present affairs in a way that arouses interest, even causes emotion. Then your English is so finished! It reminds me personally of what Anatole France recounts of Denon and Louis XV: "When anything happened, the monarch would say, 'Tell us about it, Denon...
...floating" meteor was vigorously described as "blue green about a foot wide with a red tail of red fire 30 feet long," and as "a ball of silver twice the size of a croquet, with a gold tail three yards long." According to an artist sketching on the Ipswich marshes, the meteor landed with a loud thud only a short distance away. A naval officer at Squantum, however, reported that he saw the meteor fall in the middle of Dorchester...