Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years has sat in a musty back office guiding the affairs of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, was given a party this week. His 200 singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring him to the stage from which he took his last...
...collection includes a volume bound in human skin, with the somewhat ironical title of "Little Poems for Little Folk." A removal of 20 square inches of skin from his back failed to impair the health of its donor, who is still alive and in the best of condition. Also contained in the exhibit are "Galileo," the smallest book printed from movable type, and the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyam," the tiniest volume ever printed. The latter, about half the size of a dime, was produced by a special photo-reducing process; the only other extant copy of it resides...
Sensitive folk were just as well pleased when the League of Nations suppressed much of its white slavery report covering Western countries (TIME, Dec. 19. 1927). Last week in Geneva China's League Delegate and onetime Premier, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, voiced "Chinese appreciation" when the League published in full its 529-page report on Eastern prostitution...
...Gallienne has been charging small admissions to see great plays at her Civic Repertory Theatre in Manhattan's out-of-the-way 14th Street. She has not been without kudos. In 1930 she produced Pulitzer Prizewinning Alison's House. As the years rolled by, intelligent folk who might go down to 14th Street twice a year to enjoy Chekhov or Ibsen, came to regard the Civic Repertory as complacently as they would the Public Library. But water is cherished when the well begins to run dry. There was considerable excitement among the theatre's many friends last...
...annual concert of the Club at Milton Academy on February 17 will contain the following selections: two choruses from "Princess Ida," by Gilbert and Sullivan; Vittoria's "Ave Maria"; "J'Entends le Moulin," a French-Canadian folk song: "The Camels Are Coming"; "Salvation Belongeth To Our Lord," by Tsegesnakoff; the "Cavalier's Song," by Sanford' two choruses from "Orpheus," by Glueck; "Firefiles" and "At Father's Door," two Russian folk songs; "Secret Nock," by Brahms; and "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite," by Handel...