Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other notable ingredients in the gala week of Washington opera supplied social and musical excitement. Offspring of three presidents (Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson) sat behind stiff shirts or strings of pearls; French Ambassador Paul Claudel was advertised as a patron. On the stage appeared Mary Lewis and Jeanne Gordon of the Metropolitan; famed French tenor Maurice Capitaine, sent specially for the occasion by the French Ministry of Fine Arts, had arrived the day before Mignon. Plaudits for him perhaps surpassed those tendered Novelist-singer Christmas...
...Manhattan last week, 66-year-old Ernestine Schumann-Heink, sang her farewell. Early in the season she announced her last season in concert and then set out across the country, trouping as had been her way. She went to St. Louis, Birmingham, Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, Richmond, Baltimore, to 24 cities before she came to Manhattan. There attended her all the tears and tributes of a last time. The American Legion saluted her. So did the Governors of the 48 states; there were letters from them all, a farewell appreciation for "a lifetime of self-sacrificing service." Mme. Schumann-Heink cried...
...Cleveland spends high praise on its ten-year-old orchestra, on Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff who has been with the orchestra since its birth. Con- ductor Sokoloff evidently does not hold the Cleveland musical public in the same high regard. Often he is vexed by it-for coming late, for coughing, for leaving early. Last week he rebuked it publicly for general lack of interest. A chorus of 30 Glenville High School girls had assisted in a concert, just finished Debussy's Blessed Damosel and taken their applause when Conductor Sokoloff stepped up. Said he: "If this were a baseball...
Motor Cars. Robert M. Calfee of Cleveland, attorney for the Peerless Motor Car Corp. said: "The Peerless Company under the present proposal does not contemplate the merger of the three companies [Peerless Motor Car Corp., Jordan Motor Car Co. and Continental Motors Corp.], but plans for mutual benefits which would strengthen each in the automobile industry. We have tried to work out a plan which would be beneficial to all three companies." That indicated a grouping of interests. However President R. W. Judson of Continental Motors at once said: "We expect to maintain our position indefinitely as an independent manufacturer...
...party will sail from New York on June 18 on board the S. S. Cleveland, proceeding straight to Cherbourg, and from there by rail to Paris, where some time will be spent in sight seeing. The battle fields of France will be studied and the influence of their topography on the victories of the allies in the last war. Especial attention will be paid to the region around the Paris basin, where Professor Davis, one of Harvard's best known geologists, did considerable work on erosion...