Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit of The Sportsman is not that of the common or (Boston) garden fan. The Sportsman is the American equivalent of the Earl of Lonsdale. It wears the tallest of tall gray hats. It rides to hounds, and it does more; it hounds its readers to ride. Steeplechasing, polo, the court games, and its more gentlemanly side of aviation are its favorite themes. There is no humor in these things, but plenty of fun can be poked at their devotees. The Lampoon has done a good...
...Bronx, N. Y., starts July 5, lasting until August 30 under Conductors Willem van Hoogstraten and Albert Coates. On the Pacific Coast, "music under the stars" will be heard in the Hollywood Bowl under the batons of Directors Bernardino Molinari and Eugene Goossens. In Europe, London's Covent Garden opera season is now under way. It lasts until June 28. Two "Ring" cycles are being given, as well as Meistersinger, Tristan und Isolde, Lohengrin, Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, Girl of the Golden West, Manon Lescaut, Otello, Norma, Gioconda, Boris. Conductors are Bruno Walter, Robert Heger, Vincenzo Bellezza...
...left by his father for his "care, maintenance or benefit," as decided by his brothers, Foreman N. and Samuel N. Leopold, trustees. So it came out last week from the senior Leopold's will. The two trustee brothers get equal shares of $500,000. Soprano Mary Garden met Tenor Beniamino Gigli for the first time last week in Manhattan. Said he: "It is a great pleasure to meet a great artist." Said she: "Dear boy, I am so glad to meet you at last...
...second of a series of "Open Nights" at the Harvard College Observatory, 60 Garden St., will be held tonight at 7.45 o'clock under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club. A short lecture, entitled "The Stars", will be given by Dr. Annie J. Cannon. This will be followed by telescopic observations of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the observatory will also be explained. Tickets of admission may be had upon application at the observatory...
...value of the exhibition is not so much that of a spectacle as it is of a visual encyclopedia, wherein the seeker may find any trend or individual expression in modern U. S. sculpture. There is, inevitably, much routine work-conventionally graceful garden groups, conventionally austere memorials to Generals and Admirals. But there are female torsos by Alexander Archipenko, possessor of an arresting linear imagination; there are Allan Clark's glamorous oriental shapes; Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound...