Word: dimitri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...singing in Russian, under the skilled baton of the Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...
...Prince Dimitri has been employed for some years in Manhattan, Prince Rostislav in Chicago...
...youth was spent in Marseilles, where the jerseys of sailors gave her the idea for the emancipated woman's golfing costume. Even today she is something of an enigma to gossip-loving Paris. "Coco" Chanel is not beautiful, yet her name is linked with that of Prince Dimitri, Parisian man of the world, famed connoisseur of beautiful women...
Prince Alexandre Dimitri Golitzin,* onetime Court Master of Ceremonies to Tsar Nicholas II, was named in despatches as chief backer of the Woman Racing Syndicate. The track was equipped, in time for the first race last week, with automatic pari-mutuel betting machines, similar to those used on horse and dog racetracks throughout Europe...
Prince Youssoupov boasts that he finally drew a revolver and put shot after shot into Rasputin. Even then the period before Death came was so appallingly long that the Grand Duke Dimitri is said to have rewound a phonograph 20 times in an effort to keep up the morale of all concerned. He later remarked with a shudder...