Word: dido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started in a Hollis Hall room on Dec. 13, 1844, when several members of the Hasty Pudding Club put on a "tragiccomic burlesque opera" entitled "Bombastes Furioso". Up until this time, Pudding personnel had limited their dramatic productions to mock trials such as "Dido vs. Aeneas: For Breach of Promise...
...City Chamberlain Peter ("Brains") Sweeny, whose mistress was a masseuse in a Turkish bath; City Comptroller Richard ("Slippery Dick") Connolly, and Mayor Abraham Oakey ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, who wrote a play called Let Me Kiss Him For His Mother, and who, while District Attorney, gave a dramatic reading titled Dido versus Aeneas, an ancient breach of promise trial...
This year's production is the first opera buffs to be given by the 22-year-old musical organization. The Musical Society was founded in 1931 to sponsor small concerts by House members. The first opera performed by the group was Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas...
...Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Thomas Hemsley; members of the Mermaid Theatre, London, conducted by Geraint Jones; H.M.V.). A charming short opera by the finest English composer of all time. Its attractions include a witches' dance, a laughing chorus, a sailors' dance, a hunt scene (with thunderstorm) and, of course, love both requited and tragic. Highlight: Flagstad singing When I Am Laid in Earth...
...originally laid down as a light cruiser herself (therefore christened with the name of a city, like all U.S. cruisers), the Norfolk is almost as big as the British Dido class (5,770 tons) cruisers, far outclasses the next largest destroyer; the U.S. 3,675-ton Mitscher scheduled for launching in about a month...