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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...
...return she was to have had her long desired American debut as an opera prima donna. She did sing with the Company in Detroit, Albany, New London. She sang the difficult role of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, but under assumed names. Her appearance under her real name was to be reserved for Manhattan. In one Manhattan performance Mme. Walska was about to take her role, but stepped aside to enable a new singer to make her debut. She was to appear in the next performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But that performance never came...