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...Talleys looked around for another teacher, chose Ottley Cranston, who with Mrs. Cranston directs the Kansas City Civic Opera Company. Marion studied the roles of Mignon and Arline in the Bohemian Girl, sang them in May, 1922 (aged 15), Kansas City pricked up its ears. Jacob A. Harzfeld and John T. Harding did more than prick up their ears. They set about overcoming the Talley difficulty, which was lack of funds, arranged a series of concerts that netted $10,000, arranged through Otto Kahn an audition with the Metropolitan Opera authorities in November, 1922. There followed months of study...
There are famed wells at Marienbad which have cured the distempers of many of the bourgeoisie of Germany. The property at the famous watering place is mostly in the hands of the Abbey of Tepl. Until recently it was leased by the Abbot to a German-Bohemian corporation. Now he is suing to recover...
...times Doctor of Jurisprudence in European universities, Oxford Doctor of Letters, Prague Doctor of Philosophy, Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor, recipient of five decorations from crowned heads, member of every U. S. learned society of any note and of several European hierarchies, publicist, moralizer, politician, pedagog, Bohemian, philosopher, will look upon this 64th year of his life as not the least satisfactory. In Paris, last week, with much ceremony, he was inducted to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, to which he had been elected in 1923. Only two U. S. celebrities had entered that august...
Thus fades the student magnificent; but only to change his abode. Stepping with seven league boots, the roistering scholar has set up a tidy little bohemian inferno of his own in the sacred precincts of Back Bay. The Quartier Latin in the flood days of vin rouge never dreamed of such boisterous revelry, nor of such cheerful flouting of conventionality as nightly reigns upon the banks of the Charles; if one may believe what he reads. But Fate is cruel, and already the prying eye of the reformer is looking askance at these nocturnal festivities. The end cannot...
...gift to his mother from Edwin Booth; there is a cloak worn by Booth as Don Cesar de Bazan; a French harp once belonging to the Empress EugÉnie; Staffordshire ware, vessels, plates, figurines; European and Chinese porcelains; Chinese porcelain birds; Capo di Monte figurines; English, U. S., Bohemian glass; wood carvings; furniture from France, England, Italy; early textiles, brocades, needlework panels, cushions, banners; Chinese, Persian, Caucasian, Turkish rugs; arms and armor of all periods and climes; paintings and panels by Jan van Beers, contemporary Dutchman; silver and pewter ; miniatures in enamel and ivory; silhouettes and medallions; cameos, intaglios...