Word: coventionalism
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...Chelsea at the methods and standards of the R. A. Every Royal Academy must have a picture by a child prodigy. Last year's prodigy was long-legged Joan Manning Sanders, 17. This year's prodigy was 16, Victor Albert Ledger, employed by day as a delivery boy in Covent Garden. He submitted a picture of two drunken 18th Century sailors on the poop deck of a schooner, which was instantly accepted...
April 27?Opening of London opera season; at Covent Garden...
...Philadelphia. Direction: Leopold Stokowski. Scenic designs: Robert Edmond Jones. Chorus: Princeton University. April 21-Oedipus Rex in Manhattan. Direction by Stokowski; chorus from Harvard. April 23-25-Festival of chamber music; at Washington, D. C. Sponsor: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation. April 27-Opening of London opera season; at Covent Garden...
...money of her on a Paris street. She sang duets with King Oscar II of Sweden. She was made Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, in consideration of £100,000 earned by concerts during the War and given to the Red Cross. At her operatic farewell in Covent Garden in 1926, attended by all the Royal retinue, she received a floral kangaroo...
...opera companies were Great Britain and the U. S. Last week saw the conversion of Great Britain. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden announced in the House of Commons that the government would give $87,500 annually for the next five years, $25,000 this year, toward the new Covent Garden Opera Company already guaranteed by British Broadcasting Corp. to the extent of $150,000 (TIME, Nov. 24). The reorganized Covent Garden Company will give performances at popular as well as grand-opera prices, in provincial cities as well as in London. Government interest is said to be largely attributable...