Word: covention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weber was told by a physician that he had but a few months to live, if he did not immediately take a rest and a sun cure in the South. He was considering a lucrative offer from London; Charles Kemble wished to produce Weber's opera, "Oberon," at Covent Garden. The emotional strain of such an event always left him weak for days afterward and he did not want to go to London. But going meant an inheritance for his wife and two baby sons, while living on aimlessly a few years more meant leaving his family in poor...
...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...
...there a quarter of a century ago, for Russian Grand Dukes and Princesses, the warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which she had studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with his velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which...
...riotous ovation when Lord Stanley of Alderly, chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, presented her with a gigantic floral display that filled the entire stage, a floral kangaroo, emblem of her native Australia in the centre, flanked by British and Australian flags. She tried to thank them: "Covent Garden . . . the dearest place I know . . . my public . . . dear old Austin, who for 36 years has been at the stage door and helped me to my carriage . . . good-bye . . . good...
...House was half full. There was a general air of apathy over the stalls and boxes. Even the orchestra, with which I had had one hasty and slovenly rehearsal, seemed half asleep and it was thus that I sang my first role in Covent Garden...