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...dying Valentin, the conducting of Frank St. Leger* who with a small orchestra wove Gounod's share of it all into a rich, seamless fabric. Critics used big words-big words, capitalized-Art, Beauty, Intelligence. They endorsed just as emphatically the Madame Butterfly and The Marriage of Figaro that rounded out the Washington run, prophesied a big future for the new American Company whose first season will include a seven weeks' run in Manhattan to begin Jan. 10, shorter runs afterward in Boston and Chicago...
...Caillaux, then, divorced from onetime Mile. Henriette Rinouard, who, as Mme. Caillaux, shot and killed Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro on March 16, 1914, because his paper was attacking her husband? Naturally M. Caillaux has not divorced so faithful a wife. Instead, the lady to whom he referred was his wife by an earlier marriage, Mme. Gueydan. She, a woman of the greatest selfmastery, has retained a position of dignity and honor, despite the astounding ups and downs of M. Caillaux who, for example, was convicted by the French Senate of "plotting against the security of the state abroad...
Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"Mozart Large Handel Overture to "Leonore" No. 3 Beethoren "The Preludes" Symphonic Poem Liset Omphale's Spinning Wheel Saint-Saens "La Valse," Chorographic Poem Ravel "A Victory Ball," Fantasy Scholling "Song Without Words" Chaikovsky Marche Slav Chaikovsky
...following program will be rendered tonight at the Pops Concert at Symphony Hall: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Largo Handel (Solo violin, harp, organ, and strings) Overture to "Leonore No. 3" Beethoven "The Preludes," Symphonic Poem Liszt "Omphale's Spinning Wheel" Saint-Saens "La Valse," Choregraphic Poem Ravel "A Victory Ball" Fantasy Schelling Song without Words Tchaikovsky Marche Slavo Tchaikovsky
Next day even Le Figaro, usually opposed to every policy of Royalist Daudet, printed an open letter to President Doumergue of the Republic, asking a free pardon for M. Daudet and stating: "If he is imprisoned at the same time as this adherent of the Third International [M. Cachin] he will be released next day by popular demand...