Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...female) from Paris. In the current newspapers are stories of a horrible bluebeard who has murdered some two score wives. The gossip group of the boarding house identify their bearded visitor with the villain. He turns out to be simply a cheap crook on his way to his girl's sanctuary in her native...
...months ago, unfinished. Critics, managers, connoisseurs the world over took the pilgrimage to Milan, hopefully, fearfully. Would Turandot be of the stuff of which La Boheme was made, La Tosca, Madame Butterfly?melodious, lovely, appealing, human above all operatic ingredients, or would it savor more of The Girl of the Golden West, of the later tryptich,* pappy, dull...
...chaste as a buttercup, up for marriage to the one who succeeds in unraveling three riddles she propounds. The Prince of Persia comes, dares to try, to risk his head if he should fail, guesses right. But Turandot, poor in sporting blood, will not give in, causes a slave girl to die for not disclosing the Prince's identity, holds herself stubborn, until the Prince's kiss tells her that his name is Love...
...performance at the Scala last week ended with the death of Liu, the slave girl, the first scene in the last act, at which point Toscanini turned to the audience, said: "The composer worked until this point and then died." It seemed uncanny to the audience that it should have ended with the slave girl's aria, the one big bit of unaffected melody. They waited eagerly to hear the ending written by Puccini's friend, Franco Alfano, from Puccini's notes, with which the Scala company is already prepared. They commended, meanwhile, the superb Turandot of Rosa Raisa...
...Padua," a stranger advised him. But in Padua a plague had left the gypsy women with pocked cheeks. Too much child-bearing had broadened the gypsies of Cadiz. It was not until he went to Marseilles, on the advice of a knowing uncle, that he found his girl, the Princess Paras Kevi. Last week he brought her home on the Leviathan...