Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exceptions were the few imported singers with whom Manager Paul Longone bolstered his list. The best of these: Lotte Lehmann, Greta Stückgold, Edith Mason, John Charles Thomas, Ezio Pinza...
...Marquess of Londonderry was resoundingly dropped last week by solid, bourgeois Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then proceeded to accentuate the crash. What honest Stanley did to friendly Edith the insulted peeress herself revealed with an icy statement from Londonderry House that it will not be the scene this year of Mayfair's swankest ball on the eve of Parliament's reopening Dec. 3. Concluded the irate Marchioness of Londonderry: "The Lord and Lady Londonderry offered their house as usual to the Prime Minister but Mr. Baldwin considered the present moment not opportune...
...music was played there by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic. Another impressive concert commemorated the 100th birthday of the bearded little Scot who made such hearings possible. With music of a different calibre there was a newcomer at Carnegie Hall last week. She was Edith Lorand, trim, dark-haired Hungarian who fiddles and conducts an orchestra simultaneously...
...spite of their rigorous discipline, their playing has the lush abandon which distinguishes almost all Hungarian orchestras, takes on particular magic late at night when good wine keeps them company. The Lorand orchestra would be a smash-hit in a night club but night clubs are forbidden. Ambitious Edith Lorand refuses to be a mere entertainer, although serious critics may rate her as such. Hers is a concert organization, she claims. It is led by the only woman conductor who has ever kept a troupe of men completely submissive...
...Edith Kermit Roosevelt...