Word: coventionalism
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Tray Race. In London, fruit porters each spring race around Covent Garden into the Strand with wicker baskets piled 12 ft. high on their cork-padded caps. Famed is the Paris tray race, in which waiters wearing long white aprons run around the outer boulevards. In the U. S. nothing on this order appeared until a year ago when Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey sponsored a waiters' tray race to ballyhoo his New York restaurant. Last week, the second Dempsey tray race made it clear that the pastime would be an annual custom. Rules, copied from the Paris race, specified that...
...Abbey. April 20 cabled congratulations to Adolf Hitler on the Realmleader's birthday. April jo on the death of King Fuad of Egypt received his successor King Farouk, a youth in school in England, prior to the new King's departure for Cairo. May g encouraged the Covent Garden Opera season by leasing a box, though he attended no operas up to last week. May 16 saw privately his first stage performance since he came to the Throne, the last act of Storm In a Teacup presented in the home of Lady Cunard. May 20 inspected the Coldstream...
...Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner, who proved himself an expert opera conductor in Philadelphia last year, is now at London's Covent Garden...
...first: opening of the opera season at Covent Garden at the end of April...
...like the Barbirollis before him, he took naturally to a musical career. At 11 he made a concert debut as a cellist. Later he toured through Europe with a string quartet. He started conducting in 1925, served for a time with the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Covent Garden Opera. As regular conductor of the Leeds Symphony and the Scottish Orchestra of Glasgow, he has had such success that both organizations have increased their audiences measurably, extended their seasons. The Philharmonic announced these facts proudly last week. Still many were surprised that Barbirolli's engagement...