Word: czecho
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Warsaw, Polish capital, national ire scaled great heights. The press fumed, warned Danzig that, unless it were more careful, it might become heir to a military occupation. It also reminded the unhappy Germans in Danzig that Poland "has powerful friends" - France, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia - and could carry out her threats...
Married. Jan Masaryk, son of Thomas G. Masaryk (CzechoSlovakian President) and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic, to Mrs. Frances Crane Leatherbee, daughter of Charles C. Crane, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; in Manhattan...
...Attorney General of the U. S. and present member of the Manhattan law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, to be a member of the international committee for the codification of international law. Other members were appointed from Sweden, Italy, Japan, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, San Salvador and Argentina. Dr. K. H. L. Hammerskjold, onetime Swedish Premier, was named as Chairman...
...first time in the U. S., Jenufa, opera by Leos Janáćek, Czecho-Slovakian composer, was given at the Metropolitan. Grand were the persons of the cast; gorgeous the scenery; the music clever, racy, innocent of melody. In the title role was yellow-haired Maria Jeritza; Mmes. Margaret Matzenauer and Kathleen Howard and Messrs. Rudolf Laubenthal and Martin Ohman supported her. A grand house applauded. Critics commended. Plot. In a Moravian village lived Jenufa, the prettiest girl in the countryside, in whose grey glance lodged witchery. She was loved by Stewa, village stew, and by his brother Laca...
...acted and sang with never-failing variety and vitality" (The New York World). According to The New York Times, her Jenufa is "undoubtedly one of her finest accomplishments." Janacek, the composer, and Jeritza are compatriots. Jeritza was born and brought up in Brünn, the little town in Czecho-Slovakia where Janáćek has spent the greater part of his life. She made her operatic debut in Olmütz, from there she went to the Vienna Volksopcr (People's Opera) and thence to the Hofoper (Imperial Court Opera). She would have come...