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...aware that her first priority was to use her celebrity status as newly retired diva to raise funds, often traded a personal appearance for a donation. Inevitably, quality suffered while she concentrated on money; City Opera hit its aesthetic nadir in 1982 with a tired The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein by Offenbach and a ludicrous I Lombardi by Verdi, which Sills didn't see until the dress rehearsal. "I have had my turkeys," she admits. "Had I seen it earlier, I would have pulled Lombardi out of the repertory. But two days before, I didn't have...
...Saxon castles, he chose three of the biggest and best, had them rebuilt as combined passenger & automobile transports in the New York-Antwerp trade, with stops at Southampton and Havre. The 16,000-ton Königstein was equipped to carry 300 passengers, the 14,000-ton Ilsenstein and Gerolstein 180 each. All three could still carry 450 cars apiece as against the 600 they carried as freighters. When tourists found they could go to Europe and back for a flat rate of $150, take their cars along for $120, they pack-jammed the Bernstein ships...
...independent was welcomed with open arms into the tight little autocracy which rules the North Atlantic. After the doors of the conference opened, it was announced that Member-elect Bernstein had agreed to up his rates $2.50 one-way, $5 round-trip for the Königstein, Ilsenstein and Gerolstein, charge a minimum of $115 one-way, $207 round-trip for his 16.000-ton German Red Star Liners Pennland and Westernland...
Arnold Bernstein Line will operate the Pennland and Westernland as German Red Star Line, will continue to operate under its own name the Königstein, Gerolstein, Ilsenstein...
Henri Meilhac (1632-1697), and Ludovic Halevy (1834) have published a great many operettas, vaudevilles, comedies, and even ballets and pantomines. They are parodists in "La Belle Helene" (1864), already satiric in "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein. In Fronfrou (1869) they attained great success...
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