Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frederick N. Sard, executive director of the Schubert Centennial (1928) and the Beethoven Centennial (1927). Touring Europe to enlist help. Organizer Sard broke the news last week in Vienna. He announced as a prominent cooperator Count di San Martino. president of the Augusteo Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, who will head the European delegations. Another noble cooperator, the Marquis Tokugawa of Japan, will chairman a Far Eastern Committee. Music Patrons Otto Hermann Kahn and George Eastman will serve on the U. S. board. In conjunction with the festival a technical exposition will be held for manufacturers...
...Cecilia Black. 35, mother of three, was Chicago's first female captive under the Five & Ten. Deserted by her husband, she was trying to eke out a livelihood transporting five-gallon cans of alcohol in the back...
...astronomical colloquium will be held, today, at 4.15 o'clock, in Building A, of the Harvard Observatory. Miss Emma T. R. Williams will lecture on "Bobrovnikoff on Minor Planets" and Doctor Cecilia H. Payne on "Atmospheres of Giant and Dwarf Stars...
Last week the Atwater Kent Foundation awarded the prizes for its second annual radio auditions. Some 60,000 singers between 18 and 25 had competed for $5,000, a gold decoration and a two-year scholarship at a leading U. S. conservatory. Contralto Hazel Cecilia Arth, 25, of Washington, D. C., was voted best of the women; Tenor Donald Norris, 22, of Pasadena, Calif., best...
...with such wisecracks as "Her teeth are like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...