Word: fausts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regular week-end series of concerts will present the Twelfth concerto Grosse of Handel, the "Adelaide" Concerto of Mozart and the Beethoven Concerto in D, played by Yohudi Menuhin, and Three Excerpts from "the Damnation of Faust" by Berlioz...
Next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Germanic Museum, Max Montor, well-known German actor, will present before an opening meeting of the German Club part of Goethe's "Faust," the ring episode from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise," and part of some modern German play. Herr Montor will act out all the characters. He is said, moreover, to know by memory all the parts in at least 50 famous German plays...
...outdone, Oklahoma City's bustling Chamber of Commerce and the University of Oklahoma banded together to present Faust, with seats at 25?. Music lovers boasted that attendance would far outstrip Tulsa's, visioned opera as an annual event in "a Greek amphitheatre which will become the centre of cultural activity for the Southwest...
...about 150 other voices on the Dell's 60 ft. stage. Footlights, border lights, electric towers, side spotlights and a "traveling moon" made the shell look to some listeners like an opera-lover's Fourth of July. Philadelphians looked forward to seven more operatic productions including Traviata, Faust, and Rigoletto. Next year. Conductor Smallens promised to have stage facilities adequate for Wagner...
...play called The Lady from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly Scotch burr soon made him a popular, villain. His first cinema, in 1912, was a talkie: an experimental version of Faust made at the Edison laboratories. His whiskers became really famed in the U. S. after Tol'able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania. When he heard that $1,000 salaries for actors were common in Hollywood; Ernest Torrence said: "Talk like that makes...