Word: austral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austral Banned...
...owed her popularity as much to her reputation for spotlessness as to her nightingale voice. But Lily Langtry, the Jersey beauty, was just as successful despite her intimacies, which every one knew, with Edward VII and others. Moral protests arise where least expected. Last week in England Soprano Florence Austral, 35, was banned from the Three Choirs Festival* to be held in Worcester Cathedral because her past included a divorce case. The objections came publicly from the Very Reverend William Moore Ede, dean of Worcester. They harked back to quiet divorce proceedings brought four years ago by a Mrs. John...
Cincinnati, May 7-11, Biennial May Music Festival, Frederick Stock musical director; Cincinnati Symphony and such soloists as Florence Austral, Schumann-Heink, Paul Althouse, Dan Beddoe, Lawrence Tibbett in such works as Mendelssohn's St. Paul (oratorio), Bach's Magnificat, and a Wagner program...
...estimated deficit of $300,000; seats for $1.40; a six months' season in London, the rest of the year to be divided among Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow; the company to be organized from such British singers as John McCormack, Edward Johnson, Alfred Piccaver, Joseph Hislop, Florence Austral and Eva Turner; Sir Thomas himself to be artistic director...
With Conductor Frederick A. Stock specially brought from Chicago to conduct Wagnerian excerpts and Frank V. Van der Stucken to interpret Beethoven's pieties; with Marie Sundelius, Richard Crooks, Marion Telva, Florence Austral, Nevada Van der Verr, Horace Stevens, Ben Davies and many another on hand to vocalize; even with music critics from leading other-city newspapers to listen, applaud and report? Cincinnati last week held its 27th May Music Festival...