Word: cornelius
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...proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element, Mr. Kahn transfused "new blood" into the board-William Kissam Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and others. But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social citadel. This element feared lest Distinction and Bon Ton, like old pieces of furniture...
Bori sang in Pelleas and Melisande, which is perhaps the most artistically perfect presentation in the Metropolitan's repertoire; again Jeritza, in Fedora; then the "novelty" of the opening week, a double bill consisting of Cornelius' Der Barbier von Bagdad and Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, this latter with Lucrezia Bori; last of all Ponselle. amid that gorgeous exoticism L' Africaine...
...During the first week two 'novelties' will be given in a double bill LHeure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel, with Lucrezia Bori; followed by Der Barbier von Bagdad by Peter Cornelius. . . . During the second week the first Metropolitan performance will be given of Gasparo Spontini's opera, La Vestale...
Engaged. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, sister of Muriel Vanderbilt (who recently married Frederic C. Church) great-great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Earl E. T. Smith, Yale student...
...announced that Charles E. Hughes was retained as attorney for the receivers of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. Last week it appeared likewise that John W. Davis, onetime Ambassador to the court of St. James's, onetime Democratic candidate for President, is acting as attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (TIME, July 6, MUSIC), defendant in a breach of promise suit for $1,000,000 started by Evan Burrows Fontaine, famed cabaret dancer...