Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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David Belasco, wizard of the realistic stage, is about to sell his collections- artistic and otherwise. There is a work table of rosewood, 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...
...program is in three parts. The Brahms Sonata in E-flat for clarinet and piano is said to be Brahms' favorite among all his chamber music. It is of several piano-clarinet pieces which the composer wrote for and dedicated to Carl Muhlfeldt, a celebrated clarinet player. The Cesar Franck Sonata for violin and piano is one of the most effective modern pieces written for that combination...
Wednesday evening, November 7, Frederic Briston, pianist, will play, in Jordan Hall, a program on which stands the Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue of Cesar Franck...
...Dancer. With the production of this picture, the Polish invasion of Hollywood shows up considerably. There was a time when prophets foresaw Pola Negri as the preponderant personage on the screens of the world. Mary Pickford, annoyed thereby, put up her curls and played Rosita. The same story (Don Cesar de Bazan) is the backbone of Miss Negri's The Spanish Dancer. Mary's acting and Mary's production were superior. (National sigh of relief...
...Cesar Lopez de Lara is interested in education. He is also Governor of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. And he has put the two together. First of all, by the exercise of almost arbitrary power, but supported by popular sentiment, he taxed everybody and everything. By this means he built up an educational fund of almost $2,000,000. With this fund he gathered together efficient teachers and employed an American architect to design school buildings, putting an American in full charge of the construction program. This American is to spend up to $1,000,000 for the building...