Word: fedoras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saying: "I wore a black derby to the Bankers' Club for luncheon, and while I did not count the hats in the hat room, I suppose there must have been a thousand. . . .Among the lot but four black derbys stood out in contrast. The white Fedora was preponderantly in evidence, the rest being soft brown...
Bori sang in Pelleas and Melisande, which is perhaps the most artistically perfect presentation in the Metropolitan's repertoire; again Jeritza, in Fedora; then the "novelty" of the opening week, a double bill consisting of Cornelius' Der Barbier von Bagdad and Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, this latter with Lucrezia Bori; last of all Ponselle. amid that gorgeous exoticism L' Africaine...
...Fedora, Maria Jeritza was about to drain a glass of poison in the presence of the tenor hero (Giovanni Martinelli). She climbed upon a table, swayed there in tragic, shimmering loveliness. The table toppled, collapsed, spilled her into Martinelli...
...Commerce; there was the long, lean face of the Secretary of Agriculture smiling from beneath its domed forehead; and there were the stone-chiseled features of the Secretary of State. He too smiled as he waited there, his head thrust forward over his little dark-suited body, his gray fedora held in one hand and his cane hooked over...
...Toscanini, who attempts to emulate his master by doing without the scores. He got the sack for appearing "not to have gained the confidence of the artists." They sent for Conductor Leopold Mugnone, the Neapolitan, a great favorite in London. Jeritza went off to the country to rest before Fedora. And going, she learned that their Britannic Majesties would be graciously pleased to attend her next Tosca...