Word: diavolo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deliberated. There were strolls in the Borghese gardens and midnight consultations in the overcrowded inns. The youngest delegate was the Archbishop of Baltimore, the late Cardinal Gibbons. The shrewdest was the Archbishop of Westminster, Henry Edward Manning. To his delight he was nicknamed by the other delegates Il Diavolo del Concilio...
Your admirer of Dumas will not find fault with their work. Zound's, Mortiou's, diavolo's there are in plenty. Gentlemen insult each other with perfect grace, and draw their long steel on the lightest provocation. Madame De Chevreuse still plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise...
Other productions will include Bizet's Pearl Fishers, Montemezzi's Love of Three Kings, Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Meyerbeer's Prophet, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Entirely new stage sets have been built for several of these. Among the singers there will appear Mary Garden (of course), Louise Homer, Florence Macbeth, Edith Mason, Charles Hackett, Feodor Chaliapin...
...program of numbers to be played at the "Pops" at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall is as follows: 1. Overture to "Fra Diavolo" Auber 2. Waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier" R. Strauss 3. March of the Little lead Soldiers Pierne 4. Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Boredin 5. Overture Solennelle, "1812" :Tachailkovsky 6. Song to the Evening Star Wagner 7. "A Kiss in the Dar," from "Orange Blossoms" Herbert 8. Rondo Capriccioso Mendelssohr, Jacchia 9. Fantasia, 'La Travinta" Verdi 10. Largo Handel(Solo Violin, Harp, Strings and Organ. 11. March, "Washington Post" Sousa