Word: fernand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johnstown since the Flood, nor, until last week, had he sung in San Francisco since the Fire. His great voice boomed there last week; other famed singers tuned their notes-Tita Schipa, tenor from the Chicago Civic Opera; Marguerite d'Alvarez, Spanish contralto; Rosina Torri, from La Scala; Fernand Ansseau, Belgian. Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila. The San Francisco Opera Company had begun its season...
This talented group of stars, including Mary Garden, Fernand Ansseau, Georges Baklanoff, Virgilio Lazzari, and Lodoylco Oliviero have performed it on the most lasses stages in the United States. They will be conducted at the "Harvard Night" performance by Giorgio Polacco, one of the most gifted and world renowned conductors in America...
...drawing room. If the drawing room is Louis XV period, so must be the picture. Since many drawing rooms are modern, with Oriental motifs, many pictures are done in ultra-modernist style, all attention given to pose and expression, costumes indicated by a few strokes with oriental backgrounds. Fernand Goin, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Van Dongen are reported to be doing many portraits of this kind. "They have their sittings booked for months ahead, like fashionable dentists...
...stylist, great as was Hugo's influence, it is probable that of Anatole France will be greater. A Frenchman can best appraise him. In the Revue Bleue of February 23, 1901, Fernand Gregh said. "Never was the French language better written. . . . It is simply perfection. Renan himself wrote less well as far as pure technique is concerned. . . . He is a brother through the centuries of Marot, Montaigne, Racine, La Fontaine, La Bruyere, Fenelon, Diderot, and Voltaire. He is the Frenchman. A man who is to such an extent representative, to use one of Emerson's expressions, is a rare...
Score: Harvard Freshmen 36, N. H. State Freshmen 33. Goals from floor: Gordon 5, Stevens, D. H., 4, Seymour 4, Metcalf 4, Sipp 3, Black, Rudofsky, Anderson, Fernand Ryan. Free throws: Gordon 8, Metcalf 11. Referee, Hoyt, Time, 20-minute periods. HARVARD 1924. N. H. STATE 1924. Gordon, r.f. l.g., Stevens, R. Stevens, D. H., l.f. r.g., Ryan, Aules, Colby Sipp, c. c., Fernand Black, r.g. l.f., Metcalf Rudofsky, l.g. r.f., Seymour, Anderson