Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March, "National Masonic Club"Harlow 2. Overture, "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" Suppe 3. Elli, Elli Arranged by Jacchia Solo Trumpet Kurt Schmeisser 4. Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi 5. Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens 6. The Music Box Liadov 7. Air, "Non piu andrai" from "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Charles H. Bennett, Baritone 8. The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 9. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier 10. "Kogawa no Hotori ni," "By the Brook" Seigi Abe 11. Waltz, "Roses from the South" Strauss
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Mme. Dusolina Giannini, who recently won fame and popularity as soloist with the Harvard Glee Club. Among other things she will sing Haendel's Large, Donaudy's "Del Mio Amato Ben" and aria from "Figaro", one from Beethoven and songs of Brahms and Schumann...
Slating the Soviet Government for trying to kill off intellectualism in Russia, Le Figaro (Paris journal) said in part: "As if this were not enough, students suspected of Menshevism* have been expelled and finally, under compulsion by fanatical women, including the wife of Lenin and Mme. Kamenev, it was decided to make students pass an examination on public development. One question was 'Who is the head of the Third International ?'† One unfortunate student answered 'Rosa Luxembourg' and was expelled. A woman medical student who was unable to give the exact definition of the Central Executive...
Among many people who conceived political and personal hatred for Joseph was M. Gaston Calmette, Managing Editor of the Figaro. Early in 1914, when Caillaux became for the third time Minister of Finance, in the Cabinet of Premier Doumergue, Calmette directed an intense and violent campaign against him and incriminatory facts were published...
These attacks had undoubtedly greatly angered Caillaux; for one day in March, 1914, there appeared at the office of the Figaro Mme. Caillaux, third wife of Joseph, herself a divorcee. Her card was handed to Calmette, who with a gesture of impatience, showed it to Paul Bourget. "What are you going to do?" said the latter. "She is a woman. I must receive her," replied Calmette...