Word: edmonds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opera almost every year. None was ever good enough to stay put. A typical one was a 1913 number about the swashbuckling, sword-nosed French poet of the 17th Century, Cyrano de Bergerac. Its better-than-average libretto was blank-versified out of Edmond Rostand's play by the late William J. Henderson, musicritic of the New York Sun. Its workmanlike score was put together, out of a wide knowledge of Wagner and other masters, by a conductor who had been toonering along since 1885 -Walter Damrosch. Cyrano de Bergerac had five performances, was then forgotten by most people...
...after a short, pathetic life of exile among the conquerors of his nation, the son of Napoleon Bonaparte by Marie Louise of Austria died of tuberculosis in Vienna. Edmond Rostand wrote a moving play about L'Aiglon, as he was called, and great actresses played the part, but nobody ever thought the bones of the young Duke of Reichstadt important enough to be moved to Paris until Adolf Hitler conceived of the gesture as a "symbol of good will and hope for eternal peace...
...STRATEGY OF TERROR-Edmond Taylor-Houghton Mifflin...
...enough the experiment is a terrific success. Singer is Eddy Howard, and the band is led by Teddy Wilson. Coupling, Star Dust and Old Fashioned Love, features Benny Morton backing the vocals with some fine muted trombone. Also heard are Charlie Christians, Benny Goodman's electric guitar technician, and Edmond Hall, one of the most unappreciated clarinetists in the business. Record is ideal for both dancers and jazz fiends ... Lexa Egon May (a woman) tells us all about Duke Ellington in a letter to the current Down Beat ... "Ellington music is an unearthly melodiousness, full of poignancy and melancholy, wailing...
...Harvard kouprey, an old adult bull, was shot by Mr. Francois Edmond-Blanc, member of a Franco-American scientific expedition to Indo-China. The ox was presented to the Museum of Comparative Zoology by James C. Greenway, Jr. of the Museum staff, who was also a member of the expedition...