Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generations, Wagner scholars (including famed Biographer Ernest Newman) tried in vain to get a look at the largest collection of Wagneriana outside the Wagner shrine at Bayreuth-the "Burrell Collection." Last week, more than 60 years after Englishwoman Mary Burrell began the job of assembling it, the best of her collection was published: Letters of Richard Wagner (Macmillan; $10.50). For Wagner scholars, it was the end of a long, long trail...
Kalimpong's main social center is the Himalayan Hotel, operated by the Mac-Donalds, a jovial Scottish-Tibetan family, who organize Saturday night parties liberally spiced with unusual conversation and hot millet beer. On one recent occasion, in the dining room, a Buddhist Englishwoman thought that she recognized another woman guest. "I beg your pardon," she said, "but haven't we met in a previous incarnation?" "Yes," was the reply, "I believe we have. I was Joan of Arc and you were my brother." The Englishwoman drew herself up haughtily. 'Certainly not," she snapped, "I have never...
...women have made a name in music as composers, fewer still as operatic composers. The only authoressed opera ever produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, Englishwoman Ethel Smyth's Der Wald, fizzled after two performances in 1903. But last week a onetime Metropolitan contralto-turned-composer was making a valiant...
Paint & Poison. Married to an Englishwoman who works with the International Refugee Organization in Vienna ("a very important lady"), Schoeffler has homes in both England and Vienna. The Schoefflers' 17-year-old son Peter, a British subject, is studying economics at Oxford. He wants to be a singer too ("he has the same voice I do"), but papa Schoeffler is trying to say no-"This business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night, it is no good...