Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tosca will open the Metropolitan's season in Philadelphia Nov. 2, with Maria Jeritza, a blonde, exuberant Tosca, to race the gauntlet of operatic emotions. Jealous first, then playful, loving completely Mario Cavaradossi, she brings him thus unwillingly into a political trap laid by Chief of Police Antonio Scotti, sleekest...
"Just back of them [some bronzes], is the delicious "Humoresque" by Harriet Frishmuth, N. A. This should never be overlooked. Miss Frishmuth, ranking in the first rank of American women sculptors, is widely represented in the collection, and also is in Atlanta for the exhibition. Nine or ten examples of...
Juarez and Maximilian. History mentions one Maximilian, a Habsburg, appointed Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon Bonaparte; records a successful revolution led by Juarez, the untimely defection of Napoleon's troops, execution of Maximilian. More colorful chronicles relate that Maximilian's proud empress, failing to obtain aid from royal...
Conductor Ernest Bloch came all the way from San Francisco to lead a picked handful of men with strings through Bach's steamy and impetuous "Brandenburg" concerto in G. Some of the temperament of this first performance extended, unhappily, into their execution of the next item, Mozart's...
"Although Oxford and Cambridge cling to the old rule by the Fellows, a plan similar to the American idea is in execution in all the modern English and Scotch universities, where leading citizens of the college towns are powers in the University Court, as the governing bodies are called. Because...