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Subsequent diversions for Their Majesties included a horse race at the Moscow Hippodrome and a gala performance at the onetime Imperial Opera of the Communist Ballet Red Poppy, the theme of which is the present Chinese civil war (see China...
...keep them as an integral exhibit. The Metropolitan refused the treasures on these terms, but not the Corcoran Art Gallery of Washington, substitute legatee. ... Last week, with Senator Clark's widow on his arm, President Coolidge walked through the Corcoran's new Clark annex, followed by a gala procession, and looked at the pictures, tapestries, laces, rugs, faiences, sculptures, furniture and other gimcracks collected to the tune of perhaps five millions by old Bill Martin's alleged oldtime pardner, Bill Clark...
Between banquets and lectures, at Oslo, the delegates and His Majesty and Crown Prince Olaf attended gala performances at the National Theatre of six Ibsen plays: 1) Brand (1866), the tragic story of a clergyman who places duty to God majestically above earthly love but is killed by an earthly avalanche; 2) The League of Youth (1869), one of Ibsen's few boisterous comedies; 3) Ghosts (1881), in which a son is smitten by Fate in the guise of inherited venereal disease; 4) An Enemy of the People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy...
Other notable ingredients in the gala week of Washington opera supplied social and musical excitement. Offspring of three presidents (Cleveland, Roosevelt, Wilson) sat behind stiff shirts or strings of pearls; French Ambassador Paul Claudel was advertised as a patron. On the stage appeared Mary Lewis and Jeanne Gordon of the Metropolitan; famed French tenor Maurice Capitaine, sent specially for the occasion by the French Ministry of Fine Arts, had arrived the day before Mignon. Plaudits for him perhaps surpassed those tendered Novelist-singer Christmas...
European triumphs. Loosely speaking it was a gala "Saturday night" party, but no one expected to get home until well along in a merry Sunday morning...