Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CAST OF CHARACTERS Manuel Arthur Lewis Carmen Campos Georgia Harvey Dona Marciala Katherine Grey Don Evaristo Fred Tiden Papa Juan Otis Skinner Dona Filomena Octavia Kenmore Eulalia Mary Howard Trino Hardie Albright Currita Mary Arbena Rosa Veronica Rey Antonon Charles Dalton Alonso Gerald Hamer...
...business, Lenore Ulric never had much luck until she went to work for David Belasco. Her father was a steward in an army hospital in Milwaukee. She was born in New Ulm, Minn. She ran away from the 5th grade to be a cigaret girl in a stock-company Carmen. She told Belasco where she had played-Chicago, Grand Rapids, Schenectady. She had walked into the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan early one morning, answering an advertisement for supers. She looked tired and sick but she managed to learn what she had to do quicker than the dozen girls hired with...
Manhattan and Chicago each have one permanent opera company (see pp. 52 & 54). Philadelphia has three. Last week all three began the season. The Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, under new Conductor Emil Mynarski, presented Carmen in French with Sophie Braslau. The Philadelphia Civic Opera, under Conductor Alexander Smallens, gave Prince Igor in Russian with a Russian cast and ballet. The Pennsylvania Grand Opera gave Boito's Mefistofele in Italian. Most interesting to watch this year will be the Philadelphia Grand Opera, which begins its first season in cooperation with Mrs. Edward Bok's Curtis Institute of Music...
...Flores Mexicanas (Flowers of Mexico) by Ramos Martinez of Mexico City, who took 15 years to perfect his work. It was bought last week by Mexico's President Emilio Fortes Gil, to be sent to Miss Morrow and Col. Lindbergh on behalf of the President and his wife, Dona Carmen Garcia Deportes...
...Lehmann started her career as a coloratura soprana. Bellini and Donizetti were her gods. Then she met a little man with burning eyes. He was her mother's former lover and he told her she must study his music. And so she abandoned her Traviata, her Mignon, her Carmen, and became instead an Elsa, a Brünnhilde, an Isolde. Soon she became world renowned as the great Wagner interpreter. In 1885 she went to the U. S., to the Metropolitan. City after city paid her tribute. Grover Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie were among her admirers. Still specializing...