Word: bohemian
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...Symphony by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson needed more than their winter engagements to support their families. They were tired, too, of ponderous scores and strangely enough they found Society in the same mood. The Popular Concerts, soon shortened to Pops, caught on. It was considered Bohemian and ever so smart to roll up to Music Hall on one's bicycle, to sit without gloves, sip a lemonade just flavored with claret and tap one's foot in time to a mazurka. Such goings-on had even the sanction of the late Mrs. Jack Gardner, Boston's leading lioness...
...Shakespeare's birth was seized upon by the Civic Repertory Theatre as an opportunity for presenting Romeo and Juliet. Generally content with a small part and the direction of her company, Eva LeGallienne this time took upon herself one of the title roles. The performance had a somewhat Bohemian disregard for the usual trappings of Shakespearean drama. The text, trimmed, sounded unusually businesslike curt, direct...
...included Massenet's Herodiade and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, operas in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will presumably have the leading roles; Strauss's Elektra with Soprano Gertrude Kappel, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Otello, Rossini's William Tell and Bohemian Jaroslav Weinberger's Schwanda, Der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe-player), never given in the U. S. New European singers who have signed contracts are famed Basso Ivar Andresen and German Soprano Frieda Leider, now with the Chicago Civic Opera and presumably not to join the Metropolitan until 1931. A possibility...
...parents could have answered the Theban Sphinx, for like Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, famed Bohemian-born doctor of medicine and physical anthropologist with the U. S. National Museum, they have rarely seen children walking like little bears. In 1927 and 1928 Dr. Hrdlička wrote three learned papers on the subject of walking-on-all-fours. Only 41 cases could he locate, so he decided it was a rarity, gave it a Greekish name, tetrapodisis...
...sportsman, of the family for which Asheville, N. C., was named, nephew of famed Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, first husband of famed Aimee Crocker (now Princess Galitzine), owner of famed Racehorse Geraldine (46 sec. half mile, Chicago, 1891), discoverer of Boxer Jim Corbett, oldtime member of California's Bohemian Club; at San Francisco; of apoplexy...